Kenya's Odinga makes election ultimatum
Flamboyant DR Congo politician indicted
Seychelles votes to decriminalise gay sex
Swazi king's plane "seized" in Canada
EgyptAir flight with 66 people on board plunges into sea
Freed Chibok girl meets Nigeria's president
This month marks 22 years since the genocide in Rwanda in which more than 800,000 people were killed.
The genocide memorial in the centre of the capital Kigali is the final resting place for over 250,000 victims.
It receives thousands of visitors every week, as the BBC's Milton Nkosi reports.
Anne Soy
BBC Africa, Nairobi
Image source, AFPMr Odinga's supporters allege that the election commision is biased
Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga has told me that there will be no election in the country next year unless the current members of the electoral commission are replaced.
The former prime minister has been leading protests every Monday in the capital, Nairobi, to demand the resignation of the commissioners.
They have refused and have challenged the opposition to push for their removal through the parliamentary process.
Some of the opposition protests have been violent, with looting, mugging and police brutality caught on camera.
Image source, AFPMr Odinga denied allegations his supporters were responsible for some of the violence seen in Nairobi on Monday.
Image source, AFPRelatives are waiting anxiously for news about their loved ones on the plane
Here's a quick update on the missing EgyptAir plane:
Image source, OCS MaliMalian authorities have made a record drugs haul in the capital Bamako, according to the national drug agency.
Agents recovered 1,505 bricks of cannabis, weighing nearly two tonnes (1,700 kg) in an operation last Friday, OCS Mali said in a statement, external on its official Facebook page.
The drugs were discovered in a vehicle with a trailer coming from Ghana, and were hidden behind a door which had been wedged in the back to create a secret compartment.
Agents swooped on the traffickers as they were unloading their cargo in the middle of the night at a safehouse in the capital.
Image source, OCS MaliThe Egyptian aviatian ministry is giving a briefing on the EgyptAir plane which has gone missing while flying over the Mediterranean.
South Africa's government says celebrations to mark the centenary of a famous university will go ahead on Friday, despite violence aimed at disrupting it.
Yesterday, students at Fort Hare University set fire to the tent where the celebrations are supposed to take place, and vandalised some buildings in a protest against high tuition fees and alleged poor financial financial management, local media report.
Some of Africa's most prominent leaders, including Nelson Mandela and Robert Mugabe, studied at the university in South Africa's Eastern Cape province.
Four people have been charged in connection with the unrest, police told local media.
The government said in a statement, external that student grievances were being dealt with.
It condemned the violence, adding: "Security agencies are on the ground at Fort Hare to ensure that the 100 year centenary celebrations are held in a safe and secure environment."
There have been mixed reactions among South Africa's Twitter users to the violence:
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Blamadu Lawan, the vice-principal of Chibok school, was one of the first people to see Amina Ali Nkeki after her rescue from Boko Haram (see earlier entry at 09:07).
Ms Nkeki, who is the first of the missing Nigerian schoolgirls to be found since their capture two years ago, is due to meet President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja later.
Mr Lawan was speaking to the BBC's Newsday programme:
Quote MessageI was shocked and at the same time I was very pleased. I didn't think we would ever see any of these girls again."
Listen to the full interview with Mr Lawan here:
BBC Monitoring
Back to the story on the missing EgyptAir plane... The French newspaper Le Figaro quotes a French border police source as saying, external that investigators will be focusing their attention on ground crew at Charles de Gaulles airport, to establish whether any airport employees posed a security risk.
The source said that, in the past, a number of Salafists - ultraconservative Muslims - had been detected among those with access to the areas used for the loading and unloading of aircraft.
Le Figaro also recalled that last December, the head of the Paris airports authority, Augustin de Romanet, announced that since the beginning of 2015 security clearance had been withdrawn from almost 70 employees who had worked in the most secure areas of the main Paris airports, citing one of the reasons as "radicalisation".
Image source, AFPMore than 200 children were seized from their boarding school
The Chibok girl rescued from the captivity of Nigeria's militant Islamist group Boko Haram grew up in a small mud house with her widowed mother in the remote north-east.
She had 13 children, but Amina Ali Nkeki and her older brother were the only two to survive.
The family is from Mbalala, which is about 10km (6 miles) from Chibok.
Journalist Samson Aboku, who is from Mbalala, says that it is a mostly Christian town of approximately 30,000 people, but Amina is a Muslim who was captured by the militants in 2014 while she was at a boarding school in Chibok.
You can read more about her here.
At a press conference in Paris, French President Francois Hollande says that all the information gathered so far indicates that flight MS804 crashed - but, he says, no hypothesis as to the cause has been ruled out.
"The information we have gathered - ministers, members of government and, of course, the Egyptian authorities - confirm, sadly, that it has crashed. It is lost."
Five UN peacekeepers in Mali have been killed in the northern Kidal region in an ambush.
The convoy of the Chadian contingent hit an improvised explosive device at about 18:00 GMT on Wednesday and then came under fire from an unknown group of gunmen, the UN said in a statement, external.
Three others were injured during the attack.
The UN is trying to restore peace to the north, which was overrun in 2012 by jihadists and ethnic Tuareg groups.
Image source, MinusmaThere are currently 12,000 UN peacekeepers in Mali
Read more: Why Mali is world's most dangerous peacekeeping mission
Milton Nkosi
BBC Africa, Johannesburg
"Good progress" has been made in efforts to rescue two miners trapped after a shaft collapsed on Tuesday, mine spokesman Johan Theron has said.
"They’re right there in the area now, where the people were last working, but progress has been delayed by large rocks so they have to be very careful. We hope we’re near them," he added.
Seven miners have already been rescued from the Impala Platinum mine in Rustenburg town, which is north-west of South Africa's main city, Johannesburg.
The reason for the collapse is still unclear.
In the same mine earlier this year, four miners died in an underground fire.
South Africa is the largest platinum producer in the world and mine safety has been a source of concern since the days of apartheid.
Abdullahi Kaura Abubakar
BBC Africa, Abuja
Image source, Nigerian militaryA security source has told me that rescued Chibok girl Amina Ali Nkeki, her baby and alleged husband, are having medical checks at a hospital in the main city in north-eastern Nigeria, Maiduguri.
Borno state Governor Kashim Shettima will be meeting them later today, before they fly to the capital, Abuja, for a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, the source added.
Ms Nkeki, 19, is the first to be found since militant Islamist group Boko Haram abducted more than 200 schoolgirls from the north-eastern town of Chibok.
A vigilante group found Ms Nkeki, 19, in the Sambisa forest, a Boko Haram hideout in the region.
She had a four-month-old baby with her.
Suspected militant Mohammed Hayatu, who alleged he was her husband, was arrested, the military said.
Powerlifting has traditionally been thought of by many as a masculine pursuit, but in recent years more and more women have been taking up the sport.
This week the World Bench Press Championships are taking place in the South African city of Potchefstroom, with both sexes well represented.
One of the women who will be there is Antoinette Kriel.
She explains why she loves the sport so much, in this video report from the BBC's Chris Parkinson:
Why power lifting is femine
Seychelles' parliament has approved legislation to decriminalise gay sex, the state-owned news agency reports, external.
The move came after President James Michel said in his state of the nation address in February that he wanted to abolish the law, inherited from the colonial era, which criminalised homosexual acts.
Church leaders in the mainly Catholic country opposed him, arguing that homosexuality was against their religious beliefs.
However, MPs who voted for the legislation said the constitution promoted equality, and people could not be discriminated against because of their sexual orientation.
"Out of 28 members present for the vote, 14 voted in favour while the other half abstained," the state-owned media added.
Image source, AFPThe Indian Ocean island is a popular tourist destination
Rescue operations have resumed today for two miners who went missing after a rockfall at a platinum mine in South Africa's Rustenburg town, the local Eyewitness news reports, external.
One of the shafts at the mine collapsed on Tuesday, trapping several miners.
Several people from sub-Saharan Africa were on board the EgyptAir plane which went missing over the Mediterranean.
Follow the BBC's dedicated Flight MS804 live page for updates
A Greek aviation source has told the AFP news agency that the missing EgyptAir plane crashed into the sea off the southern Greek island of Karpathos at about 01:30 BST.
AFP are the only news outlet to report this so far.
The plane was flying from Paris to Cairo.
The private plane of Swaziliand's King Mswati III has been detained in Canada for the second time in two years due to a debt dispute, according to Canadian court documents, Reuters news agency reports.
The plane was detained as part of a court case by a former business partner of the king, Singaporean entrepreneur Shanmuga Rethenam, who says he is owed around $8m (£5.5m) by the monarch, it adds.
Swaziland government spokesman Percy Simelane on Wednesday denied that the king owed any money, and said he could not comment further as the matter was in court.
Swaziland is one of the world's last remaining absolute monarchies.
Image source, AFPThe king often appears in public in traditional dress and has many wives.
Image source, Sahara ReportersAmina was found with a four-month-old baby
The first of the missing Nigerian schoolgirls to be rescued since her capture two years ago is to meet President Muhammadu Buhari.
Amina Ali Nkeki, 19, was found with a baby by an army-backed vigilante group on Tuesday in the huge Sambisa Forest, close to the border with Cameroon.
She was one of 219 pupils missing since they were abducted from a secondary school in the north-eastern town of Chibok in April 2014.