Results of Kenya’s presidential election re-run started to trickle in on Friday, with early estimates of the turnout at below 35 per cent. With nearly all followers of opposition leader Raila Odinga heeding the veteran’s call for a boycott, Kenyatta’s victory is not in question.

A French court has handed down a three-year suspended jail term to Equatorial Guinea’s Vice President Teodorin Obiang, who is the son of Equatorial Guinea's leader for corruption. The 48-year-old, known for his lavish tastes, is the son of the oil-rich West African country’s president.

Kenyan opposition supporters skirmished with police and threw up burning barricades in pockets of the country on Thursday, seeking to derail President Uhuru Kenyatta’s likely re-election with a low voter turnout.

The election commission said the majority of polls had opened but voting would be delayed until Oct. 28 in four of Kenya’s 47 counties - all in the opposition-supporting west - due to “security challenges”.

Burundi has withdrawn its membership of the International Criminal Court (ICC) , a year after it notified the global judicial institution of its intention, becoming the first nation to withdraw from the ICC. The East African country had accused the ICC of deliberately targeting Africans for prosecution.

Two South African farmers, Willem Oosthuizen and Theo Martins who filmed themselves forcing a black man into a coffin and threatening to burn him alive, were jailed 14 and 11 years today, for attempted murder, assault and kidnapping. The 20-second video, widely circulated on social media last year, shows the victim, Victor Mlotshwa, cowering inside a coffin as one man pushes the lid down and the other threatens to put petrol and a snake inside.

Former Liberian warlord Prince Johnson has endorsed George Weah for president before a Nov. 7 run-off vote between the former soccer star and Vice President Joseph Boakai.

The endorsement should help Weah, who won 38.4 percent of the vote in the first round this month, more than anyone else but shy of the 50.1 percent needed to win outright. It also puts pressure on Boakai to drum up support from other candidates.