A Sierra Leone court found 11 people guilty of treason and other offenses following what authorities have called an attempted coup, with their leader sentenced to almost 200 years in prison. In November, dozens of gunmen broke into the country’s armory and into a prison. The clashes left 18 security forces dead.

Ugandan security forces have arrested dozens of people who tried to walk to the parliamentary building in protest over official corruption. Police roughed up some protesters as they forced them into trucks. Authorities called the protests illegal.

The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has traveled to Haiti to meet leaders of the new transitional government and the Kenyan police who are the vanguard of a U.N.-backed force meant to help curb widespread gang violence.

The governor of the South Kivu province in eastern Congo on Friday ordered the suspension of all mining activities in order to “restore order” in the mineral-rich region plagued by violence from armed groups.

Federal authorities on Thursday announced sanctions and criminal charges against an alleged Tijuana-based international criminal group suspected of smuggling thousands of undocumented migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East into the United States.

A Tunisian court has sentenced a presidential candidate Lotfi Mraihi to eight months in prison and banned him from contesting elections for life, in the latest move to stifle opponents of President Kais Saied in the upcoming October election which critics call a sham.

Every day, fighting between the military and a powerful paramilitary group confronts Sudanese with agonizing choices.

A U.N. envoy says a week of indirect talks involving Sudan’s warring parties has ended in Geneva. He described the discussions on Friday as an “encouraging initial step” in a complex process. Representatives of the Sudanese army and rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces accepted invitations to meet separately with the U.N. secretary-general’s personal envoy, Ramtane Lamamra, who started the talks on July 11.

Haiti Prime Minister Garry Conille has asked the Haitian police, with the support of the country’s small armed forces and the Kenya-led multinational security force, to begin launching operations gradually in areas controlled by armed gangs.

The U.S. Army’s Southern European Task Force, Africa has a new leader after a change of command ceremony Thursday at Caserma Ederle.