As Mali faces a humanitarian emergency, Amnesty International says the conflict-torn country is seeing the worst atrocities committed in decades. Next, we head to Sudan where people are being sent back across the border into newly independent South Sudan, as the threat of an all-out war between to the countries looms. Finally, we take a look at why people in Zambia are learning Mandarin.
Bomb attacks killed at least eight people in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, shortly after the United Nations, African Union and East Africa's main diplomatic body IGAD issued a joint statement warning that peace efforts were at risk.
A bomb blast ripped through a busy market in Baidoa on Monday, killing at least 11 people. The attack was the worst the strategic town has seen since Somali forces freed it from the control of Islamist al Shabaab militants in February.
The president of Somalia's Olympic committee and the head of the country's football federation were among at least six killed Wednesday in a suicide-bomb blast at Mogadishu’s national theatre.
First, a military mutiny in Mali as soldiers rebel against the government, accusing it of failing to protect the country from a Tuareg-led rebellion. Next, will Macky Sall sail to victory in Senegal's presidential polls or will incumbent president Abdoulaye Wade win a controversial third term? Finally, our reporters take you to a Ugandan military camp, where troops are being trained to fight al-Shabab militants in Somalia.
Britain's Foreign Office confirmed Wednesday that Judith Tebbutt, a British national held hostage in Somalia since September, has been released. Tebbutt's husband David was killed when the couple was attacked near the Kenyan-Somali border.
Somali musicians on Tuesday staged a concert in Mogadishu’s roofless, bullet-ridden National Theatre for the first time in two decades, marking a relative return to calm in the war-ravaged country.
An American jihadist in Somalia fears his comrades will kill him. Web users from Israel and Iran campaigning for peace on social networks. And an online campaign to find bone marrow donors.
Fierce Saturday fighting between Somalia's al Shabaab rebels and Ethiopian troops left many combatants dead. Somalia has been the scene of a bitter conflict between the al Qaeda-linked militants and troops from Ethiopia, Kenya and the African Union.
The Saturday grenade attack that killed at least six people and injured 63 at a bus station in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi is suspected to be the work of al Shabaab rebels, whom Kenyan troops are fighting in neighbouring Somalia.
