Are we heading for another food price crisis?

Egypt's football association delays indefinitely the start of the domestic season because of February's deadly stadium riots.

Tourists may love them but many in Cape Town have had enough of its troublesome baboon population. So how Cape Town city council plans to deal with the baboons?

Libyan security forces are on high alert after prisoners reportedly broke out of the al-Judaida jail in the capital Tripoli.

Police in Tanzania arrest 126 people after last week's attacks on five churches in the main city, Dar es Salaam, a police commander says.

Boualem Bekai, a key al-Qaeda militant in North Africa, has died in an army ambush near the northern city of Tizi Ouzou, Algerian officials say.

Over the weekend Ghana's Nana Konadu Rawlings was confirmed as presidential candidate for the National Democratic Party (NDP), a breakaway from the incumbent National Democratic Congress.

The wife of Ghana's ex-leader Jerry Rawlings tells the BBC that he backs her bid to contest December's presidential election - against the party he founded.

Somali and African Union troops are launching a new security campaign in Mogadishu to prevent militant attacks.

Newcastle's Shola Ameobi is wanted by Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi for the Nations Cup.

The Confederation of African Football reveals the seeding for the draw for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations in South Africa.

Ghanaian police are investigating the killing of a Chinese boy during a security force crackdown on illegal gold mining last week.

At least four aid workers are kidnapped in south-eastern Niger by unknown gunmen, their employers say.

A Kenyan local government official is killed in what police suspect is a retaliatory attack following the arrest of secessionist leader Omar Mwamnuadzi.

There have been huge discoveries of oil, gas and coal across Africa recently but who will gain most?

A man from south Wales is one of two people who died in South Africa after a tourist boat capsized during a seal-watching trip.

The world's most valuable individual prize - the Mo Ibrahim prize for good governance - is to be announced shortly.

The war orphan who became a professional ballerina