Two British women who had acid thrown in their faces in Zanzibar have arrived back in the UK, where they are being treated in hospital.

Congolese musician Awilo Longomba is famous for his Soukous songs and calls his particular style of music 'technosoukous'.

Eid robes, toy guns and giant porridge pots

A Libyan presenter with leading television station Al-Hurra is shot dead in the restive eastern city of Benghazi.

At least seven people have died when the colonial-era Jimmy Bridge collapsed in the Sierra Leone capital, Freetown, after heavy rain.

A government project is helping to restore some of the buildings in the ancient Kasbah of Algiers to their former glory.

Zimbabwe's opposition MDC party files a legal challenge to Robert Mugabe's victory in the country's presidential elections, claiming fraud.

The Zanzibar government offers a $6,170 (£3,970) reward for information leading to the capture of attackers who threw acid at two UK women.

Reporter Nadene Ghouri follows George - a former child soldier of Joseph Kony - as he makes an emotional return to his village.

Cameroon lead Gabon 1-0 going into the second leg of their CHAN qualifier, and there are two second round first leg ties this weekend.

Crisis challenges Egyptian television

A reward has been offered by Zanzibar's government for information leading to the arrest of the people who attacked two UK women with acid.

An Ethiopian Air Force cargo plane bursts into flames on landing at the airport in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, killing four crew.

Syrians and Egyptians are reported to be among nearly 700 migrants who arrived illegally by boat in southern Italy inside 24 hours.

India and China are pushing heavily to open new markets in Africa but how do people in Ethiopia, where large flower farms have opened, feel about the results? The BBC's Vineet Khare reports.

Will diamond traders take a shine to Botswana when the country begins to auction its own gems?

A senior bishop in Egypt's Coptic Church says Pope Tawadros II has cancelled weekly meetings due to concerns over possible attacks on his congregation.