At least 20 foreigners - including US, French, British, Norwegian and Japanese citizens - are being held hostage by Islamist militants at a gas facility in Algeria.
The US will on Thursday officially recognise Somalia's government in Mogadishu after more than 20 years, says a US official.
At least five people have been killed and four others wounded in a shooting at a restaurant in the town of Garissa in eastern Kenya, police say.
A letter purporting to be from Liberia's ex-President and war criminal Charles Taylor is sent to MPs demanding he receive an annual state pension.
Ghana's Kevin-Prince Boateng is invited to a United Nations event tackling racism.
Smoking without fear and tentative freedom after Mali Islamists flee
Cape Verde defender Guy Ramos backs the newcomers to reach the Africa Cup of Nations knockout stages.
Two foreigners have been killed, including a British national, and several abducted at a gas facility in eastern Algeria, state media report.
Ethiopian players are promised $111,000 each if they win the Africa Cup of Nations.
South Africa's police are being investigated after a man allegedly being shot by rubber bullets during the on-going farmer workers' strike died.
A South African minister calls the world's biggest platinum miner, Amplats, "arrogant" after it reveals plans to cut 14,000 jobs and close four shafts.
Officials in the Kenyan port of Mombasa seize more than 600 ivory pieces worth an estimated $1m (£700,000), destined for Indonesia.
Any rise in the use of cheaper, non-branded HIV drugs could see more patients with treatment failure, doctors warn.
Malians cheer as French troops head north into hostile terrain
Hull City boss fears Nigerian Sone Aluko could be out for two months with an Achilles injury.
Al-Shabab militants in Somalia say they will kill French agent, Denis Allex, who France said had already died in a failed rescue attempt.
French troops prepare for their first major ground combat with Islamist rebels in Mali after heading out from the capital, Bamako.
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