NAIROBI (Reuters) - Gunmen wearing police and army uniforms killed three people and injured three others at a bar in a heavily guarded neighbourhood of Burundi's biggest city Bujumbura late on Friday, police and residents said.

BAMAKO (Reuters) - At least 53 soldiers and one civilian were killed in a militant attack on a military post in northern Mali on Friday, the government said.

BLANTYRE, Malawi (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Malawi's constitutional court has suspended its requirement that lawyers and judges wear traditional white wigs and black robes in the courtroom as an early season heatwave sweeps the southern African nation.

ALGIERS (Reuters) - More than 100,000 Algerians, double the number attending recent weekly protests, marched on Friday to demand a purge of the ruling hierarchy and an end to military involvement in politics.

GABARONE (Reuters) - President Mokgweetsi Masisi, sworn in for a five-year term on Friday, promised to drive a transformation of Botswana's economy, creating more jobs and countering excessive dependence on diamonds that threatens to knock it off course.

GABARONE (Reuters) - President Mokgweetsi Masisi, sworn in for a five-year term on Friday, promised to drive a transformation of Botswana's economy, creating more jobs and countering excessive dependence on diamonds that threatens to knock it off course.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African court on Friday set aside a decision to extradite Mozambique's former finance minister Manuel Chang to his home country, Sami Modiba, a lawyer representing Mozambique in the case said.

OSLO, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Aker Energy's planned development of an oilfield in Ghana faces delay due to a disagreement with authorities over regulations, Norwegian investment company Aker ASA said on Friday.

DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Speaking calmly through tears, in a hearing streamed live on YouTube, former beauty queen Fatou Jallow told how Gambia's ex-president Yahya Jammeh locked her in a room and raped her.

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - At least 78 people were killed during protests in Ethiopia last week over the treatment of a prominent activist, the prime minister's spokeswoman said on Thursday.

OSLO, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Aker Energy's planned development of an oilfield in Ghana faces delay due to a disagreement with authorities over regulations, Norwegian investment company Aker ASA said on Friday.

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe government workers will take to the streets next week to press President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration to raise salaries as soaring inflation erodes their wages and pensions, the main public sector union said on Thursday.

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria has temporarily lifted a suspension of the operations of two aid groups, Mercy Corps and Action Against Hunger, in the country's northeast, the minister of humanitarian affairs said.

DAKAR (Reuters) - The World Health Organization and Congolese authorities are proposing changes to how some Ebola patients are cared for, new guidelines show, after a patient's death challenged the accepted medical theory that survivors are immune to reinfection.

LONDON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said on Wednesday it had suspended three networks of Russian accounts that attempted to interfere in the domestic politics of eight African countries, and were tied to a Russian businessman accused of meddling in past U.S. elections.

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Riad Mostefai has marched through the capital of Algeria every Friday since February to demand a purge of the ruling hierarchy, an end to corruption and the army's withdrawal from politics.

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed an appeal by the main opposition candidate to overturn the result of February’s presidential election in which Muhammadu Buhari was returned to office.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - United Nations migration organisation body IOM said on Wednesday it had suspended some of its screening services for Ebola after three of its aid workers were killed in South Sudan.

JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan's main opposition accused the government on Wednesday of failing to push through a peace deal and called for a six-month delay in the formation of a unity administration, casting a shadow over efforts to end years of fighting.

JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan's main opposition leader called on Wednesday for a six-month extension to a deadline of Nov. 12 for forming a unity government, confirming the country's peace process would not adhere to its original timeline.