Via a plane from Addis Ababa, the EKC said that the Sudanese authorities had been able to seize a shipment of weapons at Khartoum International Airport.

In Niger and in a bloody attack by Boko Haram militants on an army camp that killed and injured 25 soldiers, as well as dozens of militants, the Ministry of Defence said that

Protesting against the "confiscation" of the military junta of power since the death of President Idris Debbie Itno last April, hundreds of Chadian demonstrated in the capital N'Djamena amid an intense security spread.

Following a court sentence of 15 months' imprisonment for refusing to execute a Constitutional Court order last February and providing evidence for a corruption investigation during his nine-year sentence until 2018,