Manchester City's Ivory Coast midfielder Yaya Toure has been named the African Player of the Year for the second time.

A sea cadet gives a tour of Africa's first intercontinental training vessel

The UN Security Council authorises an African-led military force to try to oust Islamists who have taken over northern Mali.

At least 55 people are believed to have drowned after a boat capsizes off the coast of Somalia, the UN says.

Uncapped France-born midfielder Wahbi Khazri is included in Tunisia's initial 25-man squad for the Nations Cup.

Why can't the Central African Republic army defend its towns?

Egypt's new public prosecutor has retracted an offer to resign made following protests about his appointment, Egyptian media report.

The Nigeria Football Federation reveals it owes coach Stephen Keshi two months' salary - just weeks before the Africa Cup of Nations.

A group of 30 gunmen use dynamite to force their way into a well-guarded compound in northern Nigeria and seize a French engineer, police say.

A UN war crimes court sentences a key organiser of the 1994 Rwandan genocide to 35 years in prison - its final case.

President Francois Hollande acknowledges the brutality of France's colonisation of Algeria, but does not apologise.

Can Sierra Leone's first disabled police officers change attitudes?

The US diplomatic security chief quits and other officials are suspended after a damning report into September's killing of the US envoy to Libya.

BBC reporter returns to divided Alexandria

A military tribunal in Libya probing the murder of top rebel commander quits the case after it sparked protests by questioning Mustafa Abdel Jalil.