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A South African court has ruled that an anti-migrant group must cease preventing foreign nationals from entering public hospitals, clinics, and schools, declaring the practice unlawful. The group, Operation Dudula, has been staging pickets outside health facilities in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal provinces, checking identity documents and turning away anyone not identified as South African – actions that have now spread to schools. Nina Masson and Nicholas Rushworth report.

For more than 50 years, Orchestra Baobab has emboded the elegance of West African sounds, blending traditional Senegalese and Afro-Cuban music. At the Paris Olympia concert hall the band returns to celebrate his legacy as part of their European tour. Olivia Bizot reports.

It’s a big week for art in Nigeria. Lagos hosts the Contemporary Fair this weekend, while Benin City prepares for the opening of the long-awaited Museum of West African Art. The multi-million-euro project, backed by France, Germany, the Getty Foundation, and the British Museum, was meant to house the famed Benin Bronzes, looted by British forces in 1897 – but that plan has sparked controversy. Marie-Cécile Zinsou, president of the Zinsou Foundation, explains why.

France has urged its citizens in Mali to leave immediately, as Islamist insurgents maintain their blockade of the country. The French Foreign Ministry recommended that citizens use commercial flights while they are still available and avoid traveling overland. The two-month-long fuel blockade, enforced by an al-Qaeda-linked group, has disrupted daily life in the capital, Bamako, and other parts of the landlocked West African nation, a former French colony. A. Fenaux and S. Sitbon have this story.

Tanzanian police on Saturday arrested a senior official from the opposition Chadema party and charged hundreds of people with treason in a continuing crackdown following last month’s disputed elections.

Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, at war with the regular army for more than two years, announced that they had agreed to a proposal for a humanitarian truce put forward by mediators. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective, François Picard welcomes Roaa Elhag, Sudanese Journalist based in London.

Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, at war with the regular army for more than two years, say they have agreed to a proposal for a humanitarian truce put forward by Emirat, Saudi, Egyptian and US mediators. Two days earlier the Sudanese army had rejected the truce, putting forth its own plan to create a humanitarian corridor.

The war sparked by a power struggle between Sudan’s army and a paramilitary group is showing no sign of slowing down despite one of the warring parties endorsing a proposed humanitarian truce backed by the United States, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt. Here is what we know more than two years into a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions.

Prosecutors in Tanzania on Friday charged more than 100 people with treason over their alleged roles in deadly violence surrounding the country’s disputed election, which saw President Samia Suluhu Hassan win a second term with more than 97 percent of the vote.

France’s foreign ministry on Friday recommended that French nationals in Mali leave the country temporarily and “as soon as possible”, citing the “worsening security situation” in the West African nation battling jihadist insurgents.