More than a hundred Sudanese detainees, including high-profile politicians, have reportedly begun a hunger strike in protest at their unjustified detention, as protests against last year's military coup continue across the African country.

Jeffrey Feltman, the US special envoy for the Horn of Africa, says he met Sudan's military leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan the day before the military coup to discuss the fragile transition to civilian rule.

Outgoing Iranian President Hassan Rouhani meets and holds talks with President-elect Ebrahim Raeisi ahead of the official transition of power in early August.

Mali's military strongman Assimi Goita has been formally sworn into office as the new interim president.

US President-elect Joe Biden says Donald Trump's aides at the Pentagon and elsewhere were stalling on the transition and warns that they are posing risk to US security.

US President-elect Joe Biden's transition team expresses frustration over resistance to their requests for information from political appointees at the US Defense Department.

US President-elect Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden is coming under investigation by the top federal prosecutor in the state of Delaware for his taxes.