A Rwandan man has been sentenced to eight years in prison in the US for immigration fraud and perjury after hiding the fact that he was involved in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
A woman was kicked off a flight after passengers complained about her revealing outfit, but the airline says it was her behaviour, not her outfit, that got her in trouble.
Police said the victims’ family was embroiled in a land dispute with one of the accused, who used black magic allegations as a cover-up to commit the crime.
Militant Islamist group al-Shabab has executed a man in his seventies in southern Somalia for allegedly marrying a mother and her daughter, pro-al-Shabab Somali Memo website reports.
A bill is currently going through parliament in Kenya that aims to ban use of mobile phones in online gambling, according to Kenya's Business Daily newspaper.
A top health official has warned that although Ebola outbreaks can be controlled, the disease will keep returning until political stability is achieved in the region.