While vote counting is in progress in Burundi, there is tension over President Pierre Nkurunziza's decision to stand for a third consecutive term.

South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu will spend a second night in hospital for treatment of a "persistent infection", his family says.

For the first time after Islamist Boko Haram militants abducted 200 girls last year, Nigeria's President has met those campaigning for the release of the missing girls.

A bomb attack in northern Nigeria's Zaria city has killed at least 25 people and wounded 32 others.