Senegalese Prime Minister Aminata Toure is sacked after less than a year in office, after her ruling party's poor results in last week's local elections.

The Karamoja region of north-eastern Uganda is making best of disarmament after years of insecurity.

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An Ethiopian opposition leader, sentenced to death while in exile for plotting a coup, has been extradited from Yemen to Ethiopia, his group says.

Lois and Juris Greste describe their ''extremely emotional'' visit to a prison in Cairo to see their son, Peter.

Three women have been arrested in Nigeria for recruiting female members for the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, the military says.

When online fundraising in Nigeria is not a scam

General Motors halts production at its South African operations because of the strike by the country's National Union of Metalworkers.

Motoring enthusiasts kick up some desert dust in Botswana

Small firms suffer in South African metal workers' strike

Health ministers from West African countries have adopted a common strategy to fight the deadly Ebola outbreak.

Nigeria could be hit with an international ban by Fifa for government interference in the country's football administration.

A Nigerian man detained in a psychiatric ward because he did not believe in God has been freed because of a doctors' strike, a charity says.

Equatorial Guinea are disqualified from the play-offs for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations for fielding an ineligible player.

Health ministers from 11 West African states agree a common strategy to fight an Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 400 people.

Researchers say they have worked out the meaning of the gestures that wild chimpanzees use to communicate.