Some activists are not happy with Egypt hosting the Africa human rights summit+++Dozens killed in floods in South Africa+++ United Nations Security Council adopts a watered-down resolution on sexual violence in conflict zones+++ Katsina State in Nigeria faces an acute water scarcity

African leaders give Sudan's transitional military council three months to hand over power to civilians after emergency AU summit+++Mali president names former finance minister Boubou Cisse new prime minister+++A group of young men in The Gambia are turning tyres into street bins to keep their environment clean.

African Union intervenes the current crisis in Sudan after talks broke down between protesters and the military on a transitional government+++Ugandan lawmaker and musician Bobi Wine calls for a peaceful protest after police banned him from staging musical concerts+++Meet genocide hero Damas Gisimba who saved over 400 Tutsis who were being hunted down in the first days.

UN evacuates dozens of refugees from Libya as war rages+++Nigeria’s former chief justice appeals graft conviction+++South Sudan plans to form unity government face setback +++Why Uganda risks losing EU market for its agricultural products

Uganda's top court upholds ruling to remove presidential age caps+++Global press freedom under threat+++Gambia takes stock of former ruler's alleged corruption and human rights abuses

Sudan's ousted president Omar al-Bashir moved to prison+++Questions on freedom of expression in Nigeria after activist IG Wala is jailed for 7 years for criminal defamation+++Zimbabwe white farmers sue S Africa

Task force recommends law to recognize intersex people in Kenya+++Sudan protesters toughen stand demanding for civilian rule+++Shortage of CFA franc coins hits businesses in Cameroon+++Ghanaians react to IMF’s worlds fastest economy projection

AU Security Council threatens to suspend Sudan if the military council does not hand over power to civilians++++Mozambique reels from cyclone Idai devastation a month after the disaster+++Why thousands of schools have remained closed five years after the abduction of the Chibok girls

Protesters stay on the streets after Omar al-Bashir is ousted as Sudan's president +++ Suspected Al-Shabab militants abduct two Cuban doctors in Kenya +++ The Chibok girls - five years after the mass kidnapping +++ Rwanda commemorates its 1994 genocide +++ The upcoming Africa Cup of Nations draw

Omar al-Bashir is ousted as Sudan’s president +++ South Sudanese leaders conclude their ‘spiritual retreat’ in the Vatican +++ Nigeria’s military evacuates 10,000 people +++ Kenyans who lost relatives in the Ethiopian Airlines crash plan to sue aircraft maker Boeing +++ A Liberian boy builds miniature dream homes