(JollofNews) – Senegal’s highest court rejected on Thursday an appeal by the son of former president Abdoulaye Wade against a six-year prison term for corruption, a setback to his hopes of contesting the next presidential election.

(JollofNews) – Guinea-Bissau’s new Prime Minister Baciro Dja was sworn in despite angry protests from the ruling party, deepening a political crisis a week after the government was sacked.