Manuel Pellegrini warns CSKA Moscow fans against repeating their racist abuse of Manchester City's Ivorian midfielder Yaya Toure.

A major Swiss gold refiner is being investigated on suspicion of money laundering linked to the processing of gold allegedly looted from DR Congo.

The M23 are to fight back against Democratic Republic of Congo government troops, the rebel group's leader has said.

Ivory Coast reggae star Tiken Jah Fakoli tells the BBC why he prefers to live in Mali's capital, Bamako.

UK ministers are asked to explain how a Somali terror suspect escaped surveillance by changing into a burka in a mosque.

The Democratic Republic of Congo has seen fresh fighting break out on its eastern border. The BBC's Ignatius Bahizi was reporting from the town of Bunagana on the Ugandan border for Newsday on BBC World Service radio, when heavy firing broke out.

The South African Football Association bans 15 officials for life for trying to take the national association to court in violation of Fifa rules.

Ghana's sports minister requests a meeting with Fifa secretary general Jerome Valcke over security for the World Cup play-off against Egypt.

Muslim-Christian attacks escalate Central African crisis

Lamido Sanusi says he does not want enter politics when he ends his term as governor of Nigeria's Central Bank.

Four people are charged over the siege at the Westgate shopping centre in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, in which 67 people were killed, police say.

Does rebel defeat mean an end to years of conflict in Congo?

Egypt's ousted leader Mohammed Morsi goes on trial in Cairo and tells the judge the case is illegitimate as he remains president.

Officials say security forces have arrested and questioned a number of suspects over the deaths of two French journalists in northern Mali.

Fresh fighting erupts in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, hours after M23 rebels call for a ceasefire to allow peace talks to continue.

Town where violence has split Muslims and Christians

Egypt is on high alert as former President Mohammed Morsi, who was removed from power in July, arrives for his trial in Cairo.

The United Nations has warned that the Central African Republic is at risk of spiralling into genocide.

How Muslim Brotherhood protests have evolved

Egypt's pyramids as you've never seen them before