The European Union will pledge 520m euros (£442m; $673m) to help rebuild Mali at a conference of international donors in Brussels on Wednesday.

Workers at Lonmin's platinum operations in South Africa have gone on a wildcat strike.

The International Criminal Court launches a preliminary inquiry into Israel's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla in May 2010.

The Democratic Republic of Congo is to build a town in honour of independence figure Patrice Lumumba, a government spokesman says.

Kenya sets up an anti-doping centre in the north-western town of Eldoret, the home of the country's distance running training camp.

About 100 people are feared trapped after a four-storey building collapsed in north-eastern Rwanda, the government says.

A deadly blast outside a hospital in the Libyan city of Benghazi may have been an accident caused by men transporting explosives, ministers say.

Fifty-three people are killed and 13 villages burnt in a series of attacks by cattle herders on a farming community in Nigeria's Benue state, a local MP tells the BBC.

Egyptian sides Al Ahly and Zamalek are drawn together for the group phase of the African Champions League.

Galatasaray striker Didier Drogba hits back at the racists who abused him in Sunday's heated Istanbul derby against Fenerbahce.

Protesters in Kenya release a pig and about a dozen piglets outside parliament to show their anger at newly elected MPs demanding higher salaries.

Are the Guptas too close to South Africa's first family?

Gabonese striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is voted the best African player in the French Ligue 1 for the 2012/13 season.

Lonmin mineworkers in South Africa down tools in a wildcat strike, after a senior union official was shot at the weekend.

Tanzania frees three Emiratis and a Saudi arrested over the bombing of a church in the northern city of Arusha on 5 May.

Africa's biggest tourism trade fair is underway in Durban, attracting tourism buyers from across the continent and beyond.

Kenya's new president, Uhuru Kenyatta, has denied charges of crimes against humanity and claimed that he will be vindicated when he stands trial at the International Criminal Court.

A search is underway for a group of mentally ill patients who escaped from the Mathari psychiatric Hospital in Nairobi after overpowering guards, police say.

Women rush to the gym in a country where big was beautiful

Egypt's police force seeks to repair its image