Mixed reactions from  Zimbabweans on Grace Mugabe alleged assault and failure to appear in Court. With the ruling party supporting the first lady while the Zimbabwe Communist Party says she has a history of violence. And rescue workers are still looking for bodies this as they recovered more than 300 bodies  from the  mudslide in the outskirts of Sierra Leone's capital Freetown.

At least 18 people have been killed in an attack by suspected Islamist militants at a restaurant popular with foreigners in the capital of Burkina Faso. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the assault on Sunday night in Ouagadougou. And The Zambian opposition chief, Haikinde Hichilema, pleaded “not guilty” to the treason charges and the trial has been set to commence on Wednesday.

Celebrations broke out in pockets of Kenya on Thursday after the opposition said its candidate Raila Odinga should be declared winner of the presidential vote, a claim an election commission official said was "ridiculous". And Ghana and Ivory Coast- the world’s two largest cocoa producers want you to buy their chocolate, not just their beans.

Kenyans eagerly and anxiously awaited the final results in a hotly contested election on Tuesday pitting incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta against former Prime Minister Raila Odinga. Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission spokesman Andrew Limo said turnout looked "huge" as Kenyans cast ballots at more than 40,000 polling stations on Tuesday.

Kenya's election commission dismissed claims on Wednesday by opposition leader Raila Odinga that its systems and website had been hacked to produce a "fictitious" lead for Odinga's long-time rival President Uhuru Kenyatta. And South Sudan's President Salva Kiir and two factions of the warring parties agreed a fortnight ago to hold unification talks with various groups of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement mediated by Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni to end divisions between leaders of the ruling party.

Polling began at 6 am on Tuesday morning in Kenya, where nearly 20 million citizens have registered to vote in a contest between the incumbent president, Uhuru Kenyatta the son of the country’s founding father Jomo Kenyatta against the wily veteran opposition 72-year-old Raila Odinga

Rwanda’s incumbent leader Paul Kagame has sealed a crushing victory in presidential elections that granted him a third term in office, extending his 17 years in power. And more than 50 people have been killed in clashes between ethnic groups in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, three local aid workers said on Sunday, the largest death toll in fighting between the two groups for months.

ZIMBABWE, which is grappling with a severe shortage of foreign currency, will release an additional $300 million in bond notes under another liquidity support facility secured from Cairo-headquartered lender, the African Export Import Bank (Afreximbank). And the head of the Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference challenged South Sudan to admit it is bankrupt after it failed to raise the funds to host Independence Day celebrations for a third year running.

Rwandan President Paul Kagame, already in power for 17 years, predicted on Monday he would win overwhelming popular backing for a third term in elections this week, brushing off accusations of stifling political debate. And Liberia's outgoing President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says she will actively campaign for the handful of female candidates contesting elections in October, while her male vice-president seeks to replace her.

Malawi police on Monday issued an arrest warrant for former president Joyce Banda in connection with the country's "Cashgate" corruption scandal, which involved large-scale looting of government coffers. And Senegal's ruling coalition party claims to have won 43 of the country's 45 electoral departments. But ex-president Abdoulaye Wade has accused the government of engineering problems with the ballot to sway the outcome.