The Kenyan government’s plan to close the Dadaab refugee camp is “logistically impractical”, according to Somalia’s ambassador to the US. Ahmed Awad sounding a warning on Thursday, saying that shutting the complex – which is home to at least 340 000 people – could damage relations between Kenya and Somalia. …

Six people have been killed after militants attacked a boat belonging to Nigeria’s state-run oil firm, the army says in the latest violence to hit the country’s increasingly restive oil-producing region. The Niger Delta Avengers group, which has been attacking pipelines and facilities since early this year, denied involvement but …

Tunisia’s President Beji Caid Essebsi says he will support a government of national unity, as long as it includes Nobel Prize winning groups the UGTT union and UTICA. Any change of government would require the decommission of the current government followed by negotiations between all the groups involved, including political …