A UK university is suspending accreditation for courses at a Ugandan university, in response to proposed legislation against homosexuality.

South Africa's police fire rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse striking workers in the wine-producing Western Cape region.

Injury rules Fulham's Mahamadou Diarra and others out of Mali's Nations Cup squad.

Peace talks between the government of the Central African Republic, the Seleka rebel alliance and opposition parties open in Gabon.

An oil depot in the port area of the Nigerian city of Lagos is hit by a major explosion and fire.

Kenya's Wildlife Service is hunting poachers who killed a family of 11 elephants.

The African Union's chairman Thomas Boni Yayi calls for Nato to send forces to Mali to help fight militant Islamists who have captured the north.

Zambia name the 23 players to defend their Nations Cup title as they draw with Morocco and hosts South Africa lose to Norway.

2012 was a brutal year for the rhino population in South Africa. 633 deaths were recorded, a record number that has alarmed conservationists.

Pirates free three Italians kidnapped by gunmen off the coast of Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta region last month, says Italy's foreign ministry.

'Prehistoric-looking' shoebill chicks in Zambia demonstrate aggressive sibling behaviour for the first time on film.

Readers' pictures of life on the highways and byways of Africa