South Sudan expels a UN official who it says had published "unethical" reports into the human rights situation there.
Somalia is to get its first female foreign minister, Fauzia Yusuf Haji Adan, in a cabinet formed by new Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon.
Kites of all shapes and sizes have been on display at the International Kite Festival in Cape Town in South Africa.
Bishop Tawadros has been chosen as the new pope of Egypt's Coptic Christians, becoming leader of the largest Christian minority in the Middle East.
Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, South Africa and Cameroon reach the last four of African Women's Championship.
A policeman is killed and 10 people are injured in a grenade attack on a church in eastern Kenya, officials say.
A blindfolded child will draw the name of the next Egyptian Coptic pope from a box in a ceremony in Cairo on Sunday.
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