Three US soldiers have been killed and two others wounded in an ambush in Niger near the border with Mali, reports say.

Administrators of Kenya’s oldest university, on Tuesday, closed down the institution citing fears for students’ safety in a planned protest over police beatings at a campus demonstration last week.

Several people were admitted to hospital in Bamenda Sunday after clashes between demonstrators and police, according to a medical source.

Zimbabwe’s Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko has launched an unprecedented attack on the country’s other Vice-President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, accusing him of undermining President Robert Mugabe by alleging he was poisoned at a political rally in August.

Envoys have threatened travel bans against politicians who sow anarchy or impede preparations for the October 26 repeat elections.

Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora has described the alleged mass forced return of over 100,000 Nigerian asylum seekers by Cameroonian military as worrisome and disturbing.