West African leaders hold talks on Mali crisis

West African presidents have demanded the release of Malian opposition leader Soumaila Cissé.

Prominent Tanzanian opposition figure Tundu Lissu has returned home, three years after surviving an assassination in the capital, Dodoma.

Nigerian-British author Irenosen Okojie has been announced as the winner of the 2020 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing for her short story about a Grace Jones impersonator with a dark secret.

(Photo: Muhammadu Buhari, President of Nigeria, President Mahamadou Issoufou, President of Niger, Nana Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana and Macky Sall, President of Senegal deliver a speech after a meeting in Bamako. Credit: Getty Images)