Frank Butler

As the AfroBasket championship opens in Tunis, the BBC's Rana Jawad took the opportunity to test her basketball skills.

Reports in Nigeria say as many as 60 people may have been killed after a raid on a village in the north-east by suspected Boko Haram militants.

Rebels accuse South Sudan's government of resuming attacks after President Salva Kiir fails to sign a peace deal aimed at ending the civil war.

Kenyan police name three men it believes to be the major recruiters of young Kenyans to Islamist terror groups, especially Somalia's al-Shabab.

Ghana plans to recruit 177 doctors from Cuba to work at state-run hospitals hit by a strike by doctors, Health Minister Alex Segbefia says.

An estimated 500,000 disabled children are being excluded from South Africa's education system, international pressure group Human Rights Watch says.

Nigeria's will recruit an extra 10,000 police officers to boost security and help tackle youth employment, President Muhammadu Buhari says.

Gabon's President Ali Bongo pledges to give away his share of the inheritance due from his father to set up a youth foundation.

Hundreds of thousands of Tanzania's miners work in harsh conditions with little pay and even fewer prospects for their future, but that could soon change with a new Fairtrade deal to sell gold to the UK - the first of its kind in Africa.

At least 14 people are killed after a taxi in South Africa plunges over a bridge and collides with a train on the track below.