Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi says parliamentary elections will start on 27 April and be held in four stages, ending in June.
Rwanda's army admits it is holding more than 280 soldiers accused of desertion on an island in Lake Kivu for re-education.
Former Zimbabwe footballer Peter Ndlovu will face trial on charges of culpable homicide, following a fatal car accident in which his brother was killed.
South Africa's top detective is to take over the Oscar Pistorius investigation amid attempted murder accusations against the current lead officer.
Egyptian Islamist government decides to stop opening any new outlets selling alcohol in places outside larger cities like Cairo.
Schalke 04 protest at Galatasaray striker Didier Drogba's Champions League participation.
Malian troops are battling Islamist fighters near the town hall in Gao, the main city in northern Mali, an army spokesman tells the BBC.
Conflicting accounts over death at Oscar Pistorius's home
Photos of Kenyans hooking big fish and being mistaken for pirates
The teenage star of an Oscar-nominated film War Witch, about child soldiers in Africa, is granted a visa that will enable her to attend the awards.
Seven people have been shot dead in an attack on a mosque in north-eastern Kenya near the border with Somalia, officials say.
A French family of seven kidnapped in Cameroon have been freed and rescued in Nigeria, French media are reporting.
The senior police officer leading the Oscar Pistorius investigation, Hilton Botha, is facing seven charges of attempted murder, police confirm.
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