How tech is modernising Nairobi's ramshackle buses

Africa has 55 billionaires with a combined wealth of nearly $144bn (£89bn), far more than previously thought, a financial magazine says.

Was the US seizure of terror suspect al-Liby against the law?

Liberia FA president Musa Bility says he has "abandoned" his criticism of the Confederation of African Football's election rules.

Somali militant group al-Shabab sends extra fighters to the town of Barawe, where US commandos tried to seize one of its leaders on Saturday, residents tell the BBC.

Didier Ya Konan will miss Ivory Coast's World Cup play-off having being ruled out for the rest of the year after surgery.

Niger and CAR are the countries least connected to the web, a UN study shows.

Zambia release 2012 Nations Cup-winning coach Herve Renard to allow the Frenchman to take charge of French side FC Sochaux.

Gunmen kill five Egyptian soldiers near the Suez Canal city of Ismailiya - the latest violent incident targeting security forces.

US Secretary of State John Kerry defends the US seizure of a suspected al-Qaeda leader in Libya, who he said was a "legal and appropriate target".

Rwanda strongly rejects "ludicrous" claims that it is helping train child soldiers for rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Libya's PM urges Washington to explain the capture of a Libyan terror suspect by US special forces, one of two such raids in Africa.