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Nigerian Muslims have welcomed a court ruling allowing girls to wear headscarves in government schools in Lagos state, hailing the decision as a victory for the rule of law.
Zambian police have fired tear gas and made 28 arrests during a raid on the home of opposition vice-presidential candidate Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba.
A Nigerian journalist has won the second BBC World News Komla Dumor Award.
Didi Akinyelure is a prime-time news anchor in Nigeria and presents business news for CNBC, which broadcasts across the continent.
She will start a three-month placement at the BBC in London in September.
Governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC), yesterday, warned that Nigerians will resist any attempt to remove President Muhammadu Buhari from office.
Morocco has sent a special envoy to lobby African leaders to rejoin the African Union 32 years after it left in a row over Western Sahara.
The Tanzanian government has annulled the registration of a total of 473 newspapers and magazines for being inactive for three consecutive years.
A Zimbabwean pastor who was briefly detained after organising a nationwide strike last week has called on people to keep protesting.
Egypt's security services have forcibly disappeared and tortured hundreds of people in the past year in an effort to wipe out dissent, a rights group says.
Students, political activists and protesters - some as young as 14 - have vanished without a trace, according to a new report by Amnesty International.
Many are alleged to have been held for months and often kept blindfolded and handcuffed for the entire period.
A Zimbabwean pastor leading a campaign against the government's handling of the economy has reportedly been charged with inciting public violence.
Four men who used a stray dog as "bait" to train dogs for fighting were sentenced to a total of two years’ imprisonment, the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA) disclosed on Monday in Pretoria, South Africa.
Police in Zimbabwe have fired tear gas and warning shots at demonstrators as a strike against the government's economic policies closed businesses and crippled public transport.
The former head of Sierra Leone's army, Major-General Nelson Williams, has been kidnapped in Nigeria, reportedly in the northern Kaduna state.
The body of a Kenyan lawyer who was representing a client making a complaint against the police has been found.
Egyptian authorities have deported a popular British-Lebanese television talkshow host, Liliane Daoud.
Scientists have discovered a large helium gas field in Tanzania. With world supplies running out, the find is a "game-changer", say geologists at Durham and Oxford universities.
South Africa's treasury has recommended President Jacob Zuma pay back $509,000 (£385,000) to the government for upgrades made to his private home.
Kenyan authorities are investigating if pupils who set fire to their school dormitories did so after being told they could not watch a Euro 2016 match on television.
The trouble happened on Saturday night at a school in the west of the country, local media reports.
South African President Jacob Zuma failed in his appeal against a court ruling that corruption charges against him be reinstated, another setback for the leader who has been facing calls for his resignation.
![The Muslim Rights Concern group said the lifting of the ban had "restored hope in the judiciary" [The Associated Press]](/images/2016/JULY/JULY24/headscarf.jpg "The Muslim Rights Concern group said the lifting of the ban had \"restored hope in the judiciary\" [The Associated Press]")
![Police say at least 19 people were arrested in the capital Harare during portests [EPA]](/images/2016/JULY/JULY7/zimbabwe%20protest.jpg "Police say at least 19 people were arrested in the capital Harare during portests [EPA]")
