A project has been launched to collect DNA samples from 500,000 Africans or people of African heritage in order to redress an imbalance in current research.
The Nigerian government has won a case in a British Court that has overturned an $11bn (£9bn) arbitration award made to a firm following a dispute over a failed gas deal.
At least 40 people have drowned after a passenger boat capsized on a river in western Democratic Republic of Congo, a week after 47 others died in a similar accident.
An auction in France of items belonging to the first Senegalese president has been delayed, as the government in Dakar negotiates to buy them directly.
The governor of Nigeria's central Kogi state, Yahaya Bello, has denied he was the target of an assassination attempt along the busy Lokoja-Abuja highway.
Gabon’s military leader Gen Brice Oligui Nguema has said he is giving up his salary as president and will only receive a wage as commander of the republican guard.
