Congolese army reportedly captured ADF rebel camp in North Kivu

The Congolese army said at the weekend it had captured a rebel camp run by the Allied Democratic Forces in the North Kivu Province which borders Uganda. The rebel ADF have been waging war in the eastern DRC for more than twenty years. Officials say the fighting last week left thirty soldiers and forty rebels dead.

The Lesotho police wants to question Maesaiah Thabane in relation to the killing of the Prime Minister's former wife.

Mali, Chad, Niger, Burkina Faso and Mauritania meet France president Macron to discuss how to stop the fast deteriorating security crisis in the Sahel region. But with the number of fatalities growing more than ever, what solutions will be on the table? The BBC's Lamine Konkobo is in Pau, where the summit is taking place. We also speak to Hassane Hamadou from the NGO Norwegian Refugee Council, who shines a light on the number of civilian lives lost during the attacks.

(Photo: A picture taken on November 13, 2018, shows A Tanzanian soldier from the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) sitting in a vehicle during a patrol against Ugandan Allied Democratic Force (ADF) rebels in Beni. Credit: JOHN WESSELS/AFP via Getty Images)