01:26 GMT 31st August 2011
Liberia has marked out 13 new, ultra-deep offshore oil blocks and will soon auction about half of them to international oil firms, the head of the West African country's oil company told Reuters late July.
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01:24 GMT 31st August 2011
The EU's executive will increase funding for victims of the drought and famine in the Horn of Africa, the EU's crisis chief said late July after visiting Kenya and Somalia.
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01:20 GMT 31st August 2011
A patient-doctor communications system developed by a team of Nigerian students was one of the hits at an international technology competition organised by Microsoft called Imagine Cup. By Jon Offei-Ansah, New York
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01:15 GMT 31st August 2011
Africa needs to invest more in bringing ICT into schools to ensure that youngsters have the skills for tomorrow's world, a conference has heard. By Zachary Ochieng, Dar es Salaam.
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01:11 GMT 31st August 2011
One of Africa's foremost banking groups, Guaranty Trust Bank of Nigeria, has a new man at the helm. By Nsineno May Anthony, Lagos
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01:03 GMT 31st August 2011
The recently elected governor of Kwara State, Nigeria, Alfatah Ahmed, talks with Rosemary Udoh about the investment priorities of his new administration
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01:00 GMT 31st August 2011
It is feared that a spate of bomb blasts and murders, which the government says are the work of armed bandits, is a signal that the country is sliding back into civil war. By Matthew Stein, Bujumbura
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12:58 GMT 31st August 2011
Widespread rioting and a drastic cut in aid by donor nations are piling on the pressure for President Mutharika. By Chofamba Sithole
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12:54 GMT 31st August 2011
As Nato's intervention becomes stuck in a quagmire, it is now beginning to step back from its original hardline. By Tamam Ahmed Jama
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12:51 GMT 31st August 2011
Said to be the country's best hope, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed's sudden exit has set back the government's plans to strengthen its mandate. By Tamam Ahmed Jama
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12:46 GMT 31st August 2011
The collapse of a unity pact between the two main opposition parties has given the ruling party a pre-election head start. By Nawa Mutumweno, Lusaka
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12:42 GMT 31st August 2011
As celebrations for the birth of Africa's newest state wind down, there are fears that South Sudan is already becoming mired in exclusion and corruption. By Zachary Ochieng
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12:39 GMT 31st August 2011
The government has watered down proposed secrecy laws that would have punished those trying to expose government corruption and mismanagement. By Bill Corcoran, Cape Town
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12:35 GMT 31st August 2011
'African leaders sit back and leave it to the west to deal with the drought crisis as if they are indifferent to their people's suffering'
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12:32 GMT 31st August 2011
Jonathan has sent in troops to end the Boko Haram insurgency but stopped short of imposing a state of emergency_ By Maxwell Oditta, Abuja
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