The challenges of boosting Tanzania's rice production

African Union (AU) troops open fire on protesters in the Central African Republic (CAR), killing one person in Bangui, witnesses say.

Members of the Muslim Brotherhood jailed in Egypt go on hunger strike in protest at their "inhumane treatment" in prison, the group says.

The mounting violence against Egypt's Copts

Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan accuses ex-leader Olusegun Obasanjo of threatening "national security" by whipping up opposition to his rule.

South Sudan's army is preparing to enter the rebel-held town of Bor, President Salva Kiir tells parliament, amid escalating ethnic violence.

Gunmen take a Lebanese businessman hostage in the northern Nigerian city of Kano after storming his factory, a police spokesman tells the BBC.

A British Airways plane carrying more than 200 people hits an office building while preparing to take off from Johannesburg in South Africa.

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