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A South African anti-apartheid veteran has called on President Jacob Zuma to resign following a scandal over improper spending at his private home.
Ahmed Kathrada, who was jailed alongside Nelson Mandela, said that Mr Zuma's resignation would end a "crisis of confidence" in the government.
Africa owes it to itself to become a key partner in international cooperation mechanisms, and not just a mere object of cooperation or a prize that others vie for.
The continent should no longer be perceived as a vulnerable continent but as a driver of progress.
An Egyptian hijacker who forced a domestic flight to land in Cyprus used a fake suicide belt, officials said.
His motives remain unclear but the Cypriot president said the incident was not terrorism-related.
Authorities in Cameroon and Nigeria are investigating a claim from a would-be suicide bomber that she was one of a group of schoolgirls abducted in 2014.
The Nigerian government is sending parents to Cameroon to attempt to identify the girl.
She told investigators in Cameroon she was one of 270 kidnapped in Chibok by jihadist group Boko Haram.
Nigeria has indicted more than 300 local and foreign companies and individuals, including senior military officers, over an arms scandal.
They are accused of defrauding the country of $241m (£170m) in fake contracts, a government statement says.
President Muhammadu Buhari ordered a probe last year after funds meant to buy weapons to fight Boko Haram militants were allegedly diverted.
More than $35m has been recovered in the investigation so far.
Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso has extended his 32 years in power, winning presidential elections in the first round with 60 percent of the vote, the interior minister said.
Raymond Zephyrin Mboulou, the interior minister, announced the results on national television at 3:30am local time (02:30 GMT) on Thursday after a tense weekend poll held under a communications blackout.
Benin's outgoing Prime Minister Lionel Zinsou has conceded defeat to businessman Patrice Talon in Sunday's presidential run-off.
Mr Zinsou posted on Facebook that he had called Mr Talon to congratulate him "on his victory and wish him luck".
The federal and state legislative rerun elections in Rivers State, held yesterday, erupted in violence that led to the death of at least five persons and culminated in the cancellation of polls in four local government areas of the state.
Dynamites, guns and other weapons of violence were used in the elections that were also shadowed by accusations of sloppiness by officials of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, against the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
Governor Nyesom Wike, after voting in his Ward 9, Unit 7 in Obio Akpor local government area, was quick to chastise INEC for conducting what he described as a performance below expectation.
South Africa risks turning into a "mafia state", a senior governing party official has warned, as pressure grows on President Jacob Zuma over his links with a wealthy family.
Gwede Mantashe made the comments after Deputy Finance Minister Mcebesi Jonas alleged the Gupta family had offered him a government promotion.
Angola's President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, the second-longest serving African leader, will step down after being in power since 1979, according to state media.
The 73-year old dos Santos announced his decision to quit "active politics" on Friday at a meeting of the central committee of the ruling Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), the Angolan news agency Angola Press reported.
The people of Benin would have to go to the polls again in a run-off in the next 15 days to elect a new President.
This is because provisional results by the independent electoral commission of Benin indicates that none of the 33 presidential candidates was able to secure the 50 per cent plus one vote to be the outright winner of the March 6 election.
Voting is underway at 13, 539 polling stations in Benin to elect a successor to President Yayi Boni who has finished his mandatory two terms in office.
Although there are no security at most of the polling stations, voting which started at 7am is going on smooth.
The electorate in the West African nation of Benin will have to select one out of a whopping 33 presidential candidates to replace the outgoing President Yayi Boni on Sunday March 6, 2016.
Yayi Boni has finished his five year two terms in office. During his second term, 16 others contested him.
South African President Jacob Zuma has survived a second no confidence motion against him in less than a year, held over what the opposition deemed his reckless handling of the economy.
The vote on Tuesday was won on the support of ruling African National Congress (ANC) lawmakers, who control almost two thirds of the assembly.
Militants have stormed a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu, leaving at least nine people dead, in an attack claimed by al-Shabab.
The attackers set off a car bomb outside the heavily fortified Somali Youth League hotel before moving in.
Two children of a South African, Kalambaie Wa Kalambaie, who died in the September 12, 2014 Synagogue Church Of All Nation’s building collapse have filed a suit at the Lagos State High Court in Igbosere, seeking compensation in the sum of R 8,772,000 from the church’s founder, Prophet TB Joshua.
Africa has an incredible opportunity to provide a better life for each and every child – and we know exactly how to seize it: provide universal access to immunisation across the continent to protect them from vaccine preventable diseases. We have seen the transformative impact of efforts to reach more children with life-saving vaccines. Child deaths in Africa fell by half over the past generation, in large part due to the use of high impact interventions such as immunisation. Polio, a disease that once paralysed children in every country, hasn’t been seen anywhere on the continent in more than a year. Because of a new meningitis vaccine, hundreds of millions of people no longer live in fear of this life-threatening infection, which wreaked havoc across Africa’s so-called “meningitis belt.”
The BBC is seeking a future star of African journalism for the BBC World News Komla Dumor Award, now in its second year.
The winner will work with teams across BBC News in London for three months.