Cameroon's Aurelien Chedjou gets the equaliser for Galatsaray as Chelsea surrender an early lead to draw the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie.

Morocco is to suspend judicial ties with France because of a row over lawsuits that accuse its intelligence chief of complicity in torture.

The BBC's Tulip Mazumdar canvasses opinions on new legislation in Uganda that toughens penalties for gay people.

Paul Van Haver, better known as Stromae, has taken the international music scene by storm. Born in Brussels to a Belgian mother and a Rwandan father, he tells the BBC about the inspirations for his second album.

Ethiopian artist Ephrem Solomon draws on his heritage, which is also Eritrean, to critique government politics across Africa. Now for the first time he is showing his work in London.

France's highest court blocks plans to extradite three Rwandans to stand trial in Kigali on charges related to the 1994 genocide.

Work by medical charity MSF in South Sudan is at risk as a result of attacks on medical facilities that have not spared patients, a report says.

Nigeria's League Management Company (LMC) confirm the new season will kick off on 7 March following months of wrangling.

The bodies of five illegal miners are found near a disused gold mine in South Africa west of Johannesburg, emergency workers say.

Police in Uganda prevent women from marching through the streets of the capital, Kampala, in protest at new laws banning the wearing of miniskirts.

Local people are angry that Nigerian forces withdrew security checkpoints before an attack on a school in Yobe state by Islamist militants.

An Egyptian court sentences 26 people to death for founding a "terror group" with the aim of attacking ships using the Suez Canal.

Mozambique will give a state funeral to former Benfica and Portugal captain Mario Coluna, who has died aged 78.

Uganda's health minister says homosexuals will not be discriminated against when accessing healthcare despite the introduction of a tough new anti-gay law.

Uganda's minister of health says homosexuals will not be discriminated against when they require healthcare, despite a new anti-gay law.

Why Somalia's Islamist fighters keep biting back