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South Africa’s Western Cape wants parts of the province to be declared a disaster zone after xenophobic riots.
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Armed men on horseback attack and steal the weapons of UN peacekeepers in Sudan’s Darfur region.
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The secretary general of South Africa’s ruling ANC calls for local groups to combat attacks on foreigners.
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The sentencing to death of three people for the murder of a journalist in DR Congo is widely condemned.
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Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai says he will return home on Saturday to begin his run-off campaign.
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Zimbabwean police arrest opposition supporters, as their leader prepares to return for his run-off campaign.
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Nineteen people are arrested in Kenya over the burning to death of 11 people accused of witchcraft.
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Gay activists condemn the Gambian president’s threat to ”cut off the heads” of homosexuals.
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Ugandan peacekeepers in Somalia have been selling arms to insurgents, a United Nations report says.
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Ethiopia’s ruling party wins all but a handful of local council seats, including the capital, after an opposition boycott.
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South African ministers say they will protect foreigners threatened by attacks that have left at least 23 dead.
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Hundreds of Algerian police officers head to a southern town after days of clashes between Berbers and Arabs.
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Three people are killed and nine wounded in a blast on a minibus in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
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Kenya’s Prime Minister Raila Odinga pushes for the release of his supporters arrested for political violence.
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Millions of Ethiopian children face acute malnutrition after the failure of rains for crops, says Unicef.
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Opposition claims of a plot to assassinate its leader are untrue, Zimbabwe’s ruling party says.
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Fighting resumes Sudan’s oil-rich flashpoint town of Abyei between the army and southern ex-rebels.
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Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello, the ex-president’s daughter, comes out of hiding and is remanded in custody.
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A delegation of Burundi rebels arrives in the capital for peace talks, after weeks of violent clashes.
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South African double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius wins an appeal to compete for a place in the Beijing Olympics.
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At least 12 people are killed in Johannesburg since Friday in a wave of violence against immigrants, police say.
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The inquest into former BBC World Service Africa editor Kari Blackburn, who died swimming in the sea off the UK coast, hears she committed suicide.
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Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai halts a return to Zimbabwe due to fears about an alleged plot to kill him.
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A UK court jails a Nigerian woman accused of buying a baby and bringing him illegally into the UK.
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A retired top policewoman is named to head Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
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Peace talks on Somalia break up without any face-to-face discussions between the government and the opposition.
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Sierra Leone’s ex-president cuts short his honeymoon to testify at the trial of former rebel leader Issa Sesay.
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Zimbabwe issues a Z$500m banknote, worth US$2, as the opposition calls for an emergency summit.
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At least 100 people are killed in an oil pipeline explosion by a school in Nigeria’s city of Lagos, the Red Cross says.
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Kenya’s defence minister and army chiefs should be charged over the alleged torture of civilians, a rights group says.
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The Ugandan army says it has killed two Congolese rebels who tried to attack a border trading post.
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At least 100 people are killed in an oil pipeline explosion in the Nigeria’s city of Lagos, the local Red Cross says.
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France rejects a request for asylum by the ousted rebel leader of the Comoran island of Anjouan.
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Kenya’s cabinet holds its first formal meeting, amid tensions that threaten to weaken the coalition.
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A film maker in northern Nigeria who defied Islamic censors faces jail.
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Wigan release two midfielders, Josip Skoko and Salomon Olembe, after neither was offered a fresh contract.
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Zimbabwe issues a Z$500m banknote, worth US$2, as the opposition calls for an emergency summit.
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Liberia’s Charles Taylor rejected Sierra Leone rebel complaints about his troops’ behaviour, an ex-ally says.
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The UN withdraws non-essential staff after clashes in oil-rich Abyei which straddles Sudan’s north and south.
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The Nigerian government forced the evictions of 800,000 people from slums in Abuja, a report says.
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Title holders Etoile du Sahel are dumped out of the African Champions League by Dynamos of Zimbabwe.
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Sudan accuses Chad of helping Darfur rebels to attack Khartoum and says it is breaking diplomatic ties.
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Troops clash with rebels from Darfur outside the Sudanese capital Khartoum, reports say.
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Senegal’s army launches an offensive against armed men who cut off the ears of cashew nut pickers.
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World Cup winner Marcel Desailly rules himself out of contention to succeed Claude Le Roy as Ghana coach.
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Islamist insurgents attack a police station in the heart of Somalia’s capital ahead of planned peace talks.
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A South African woman divorcing her husband goes public about his infidelities to make him pay maintenance.
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A Burundian rights group accuses the security forces of illegally detaining about 200 people suspected of helping rebels.
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Senegal’s army launches an offensive against armed men who cut off the ears of cashew nut pickers.
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Assets worth nearly $60m stolen under former President Chiluba have been recovered, Zambia’s government says.
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Zimbabwe’s ”war veterans” militia plan to intimidate voters inside polling stations, a policeman tells the BBC.
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Eritrea denies wanting war with Djibouti, which has gone to the UN Security Council to ask them to stop a conflict.
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Funding for HIV prevention is being wasted on strategies which have little impact, say US researchers.
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Kenya’s power-sharing cabinet meets for the first time for former rivals to learn how to work as a team.
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Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will face Robert Mugabe in an election run-off, amid fears of violence.
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