Rebels fighting the government in the Central African Republic say they have agreed to a conditional, one-week ceasefire following talks in Gabon.

Ghana's Black Stars continue their preparations for next week's Africa Cup of Nations with a 3-0 win over Egypt.

MPs in Kenya vote themselves a $107,000 retirement bonus, in the hope of avoiding a presidential veto which killed a previous attempt.

Earlier this month the IMF chief, Christine Lagarde, was in Malawi - a sign of how relations have improved since the kwacha was devalued by President Joyce Banda. But what does the devaluation mean for everyday life? BBC Africa's Lerato Mbele reports.

Militant Islamists in Mali say they have entered the central town of Konna, after the fiercest fighting since April 2012.

Egypt's antiquities ministry says Italian archaeologists have unearthed tombs in Luxor that are more than 3,000 years old.

Police are searching for four suspects accused of raping a student near Pretoria, on Thursday.

A man named by the UN as a pirate kingpin and known by his nickname "Big Mouth" renounces crime, a community leader in Somalia confirms to the BBC.

Zambia bans the hunting of lions and leopards because of the rapid decline in its numbers of big cats, saying there is more value in game-viewing tourism than blood sport.

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The Court of Arbitration for Sport rejects Jacques Anouma's case to stand in next year's Caf presidential elections.

Zimbabwe has failed to make the key reforms needed to ensure a free and fair presidential election later this year, a Human Rights Watch report says.

Nigeria name six locally based players in its squad for the Africa Cup of Nations.

Could New Year's Day fires spell the end of slum housing?

At least 10 people have been killed in a dawn raid in south-eastern Kenya in what officials say is a revenge attack, reports say.

A biotech firm has developed the first injectable form of malaria, reducing the time it could take to develop a vaccine for the disease.

The three-masted Argentine naval ship which was held for two months in a Ghanaian port returns to Argentina to a rapturous welcome.