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A Kenyan High Court has dismissed a case challenging the legality of anal tests as proof of homosexuality.

The US ambassador to Nigeria has warned members of Nigeria's House of Assembly that their future official visits to the US could be in jeopardy over an alleged sexual assault that reportedly happened during a trip by some lawmakers to the US.

The Egyptian government says it has found wreckage of EgyptAir Flight 804, which crashed into the Mediterranean Sea last month.

Images taken of the wreckage were provided to an Egyptian investigative committee, the Civil Aviation Ministry said Wednesday. 

Nigeria has seized more than $10.3bn in looted cash and assets in the past year under President Muhammadu Buhari's anti-corruption campaign, the west African country's information minister said.

Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara has taken a step towards drawing up a new constitution and scrapping a nationality clause which helped drag his West African nation into a decade-long crisis and bedevilled his own initial bids for the presidency.

The presidential office, in a statement late on Tuesday, announced the appointment of a 10-member experts panel, including Justice Minister Sansan Kambile along with legal experts and law professors, to draft a new national charter.

The leader of the attack on Garissa University in Kenya has been killed, officials in Somalia say.

Gunmen have stormed a hotel in the centre of the Somali capital Mogadishu, with reports of at least 10 dead and 50 wounded.

The Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, General Gabriel Olonisakin, yesterday in Lagos, raised the hope of Nigerians, particularly parents of the female students that were abducted from the Government Secondary School, in Chibok, Borno State, by terrorists two years ago, of their possible rescue, saying the troops were combing the Sambisa forest where most of the girls were suspected to be.

Muhammadu Buhari took office as Nigeria’s president a year ago on a wave of optimism that the ex-military ruler could revive a nation battered by falling oil prices and decades of corruption. 

For the third time in a week, an armed group has attacked a major pipeline in Nigeria's Delta region, two officials have said, hours after the Niger Delta Avengers group claimed responsibility for the attack.

Africa Day is the annual commemoration of the 1963 founding of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), presently recognised as the African Union (AU). 

A second girl who was among more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in a raid on a school in the northeastern Nigerian town of Chibok more than two years ago has been rescued, the Nigerian army said.

One of the more than 200 school girls kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014 has been found -- the first to be recovered since the time of the abduction, according to an activist with the Bring Back Our Girls movement in Nigeria.

The girl was found on the edge of Sambisa Forest, in the northeast of the country, where the girls have long been suspected to have been held since they were kidnapped from their school dormitory. 

She was identified by a local resident and taken to her mother, who confirmed her identity, the activist says. 

A major Nigerian trade union says it will press ahead with a general strike on Wednesday, despite a court injunction against the action.

The African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), winner of last legislative elections, has called for the formation of an inclusive government.

Punches were thrown in South Africa’s Parliament as parliamentary security guards forcibly ejected members of the ultra-left Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party from the chamber.  This  is the second brawl in Parliament this month.

Nearly five million people in Zimbabwe - half of the country's rural population - will need assistance by next year as a result of the ongoing drought in southern Africa, the United Nations has said.

Zimbabwe is one of the worst affected countries by the driest year in decades facing southern Africa - including Malawi, Zambia and South Africa - which has placed more than 30 million people at risk.

Rainfall is not expected in the country in the near future and President Robert Mugabe has declared a "state of disaster".

Tanzania has removed more than 10,000 "ghost workers" from its public sector payroll in a crackdown on corruption.

Payments to the non-existent employees had been costing the government more than $2m a month, according to the prime minister's office. 

The authorities say they are continuing to audit the public payroll and expect to find more phantom workers.