By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Actualité.cd
A finalist pupil was shot on Monday 9 November 2026 in Tshilenge, Kasai-Oriental province, during a pupils' protest against the rise in participation fees for state exams. According to Actualite.cd, the incident has revived the protests over these fees in the province.
Twenty of the 33 MPs present voted on 6 November 2026 to summon Joseph-Moïse Kambulu, governor of Kasaï-Central, over the management of the province. The initiative will notably examine implementation of the provincial programme, completed projects and resources mobilised, according to Mediacongo.
🇨🇩 DR Congo · Source: Mediacongo ·
Madagascar’s Ministry of Energy and Hydrocarbons handed the Antananarivo Urban Commune six hundred Cobra-type streetlights at a ceremony on Monday 9 November 2026 at the Analakely town hall. Three hundred will be distributed at fifty per district, and the other three hundred will be managed directly by the municipality, according to L’Express de Madagascar.
🇲🇬 Madagascar · Source: L'Express de Madagascar ·
The Nigerian police recorded 418 homicides and 227 kidnappings in eight weeks, according to their November 2026 performance report. They arrested 1,519 suspects and recovered 191 firearms in operations carried out with the army.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Source: Punch ·
Activities tentatively resumed on 9 November 2026 in Bulambika, in Kalehe territory, South Kivu, the day after the locality was captured by RFN rebels. Economic and social life is restarting following the occupation, according to Actualite.cd.
🇨🇩 DR Congo · Source: Actualité.cd ·
C64 rejects armed bid by Kabila to retake power in DR CongoThe C64 platform and representatives of Congolese civil society reject any armed bid by Joseph Kabila, associated with the Front for the Refoundation of the Nation, to retake power. They do not rule out his participation in an inclusive national dialogue, but call on him to demonstrate his popularity through democratic means, amid persistent violence in eastern DR Congo, according to Le Potentiel.
After Ahmat Chaltout’s assassination, Wagner divides Ouham among rival MPC factionsForty-eight hours after the assassination of former MPC chief of staff Ahmat Chaltout, Russian Wagner mercenaries have imposed a division of the Ouham and Ouham-Fafa prefectures, with the tacit approval of Bangui. The mining zones, including Ab-Iref, Kota-Gbara, Mandjam-Djou and Fiêsse, go to Djido Ali’s faction, while the movement’s founder, Mahamat Alkhatim, is sidelined, according to Corbeau News.The week in Africa
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