Nigerian troops join offensive against last Boko Haram hideout
Angolan police deny killing hundreds of members of a sect
Niger schools shut after meningitis outbreak
US firms criticised over 'conflict minerals'
Becky Lipscombe
BBC News, Mogadishu
Clean up already well under way at the site of yesterday's bomb attack in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu.
A car bomb exploded outside a restaurant popular with lower level government officials and 11 people died.
The UK's Independent newspaper reports, external that the Home Office has been ordered to bring a five-year-old boy and his mother back from Nigeria after they were deported.
The newspaper says it's believed to be the first time an immigration judge has demanded the government return an asylum-seeker.
The boy's mother says she came to the UK in 1991 after her her aunt tried to force her into marriage with an older man.
BBC Africa's Nick Ericsson will be hosting a Google hangout on recent xenophobic attacks in South Africa at 11:00 GMT.
He'll be joined by experts and individuals with personal stories to tell. You can watch the debate on BBC Africa's YouTube channel, external or send us your comments on Facebook, external and Twitter, external.
Brian Hungwe
BBC Africa, Harare
Churches have been getting together in Zimbabwe's capital Harare to pray for an end to the xenophobic killings in neighbouring South Africa.
They do this by singing Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrica - God bless Africa.
More than 20 different churches and civic groups are represented at Trinity Methodist Church in central Harare.
Zenaida Machado
BBC Africa
Angola's main opposition Unita party has accused the army of killing about 200 members of a Christian sect in the remote central Huambo province last week.
Police say 22 people were killed - nine of them officers who came under fire when they went to arrest sect leader Jose Julino Kalupeteka.
Police accuse him of inciting civil disobedience, and say they managed to arrest him.
Mr Kalupeteka leads a breakaway faction of the Seventh Day Adventists Light of the World group.
Pumza Fihlani
BBC News, Johannesburg
South Africa's Times newspaper says, external a girl from Cape Town who was recently reunited with her biological parents 17 years after she was snatched from her mother's bedside has received an unexpected birthday gift from the judicial system.
A High Court has blocked the media and other institutions from identifying her.
The woman who is accused of abducting her gave her a new name and birthday. This is the name she uses and the court has ruled that it can't be revealed, even when she turns 18. The girl has been known as Zephany Nurse in the media.
The worsening economy and soaring inflation is a big story in South Sudan. The Corporate blames it on the conflict which has hit the world's newest state since 2013:
Pumza Fihlani
BBC News, Johannesburg
The front pages of South Africa's newspapers show a mix of stories:
The Times leads with the army's deployment into some townships to stomp out attacks against foreign nationals.
The Sowetan and Daily Sun headline with the death of football star John "Shoes" Moshoeu.
In The Star is the chilling testimony of how strip club owner Lolly Jackson was killed. The story sheds light on the country's criminal underbelly.
A South African diamond has sold for $22.1m (£14.8m) after only three minutes of bidding at an auction.
Image source, ReutersThe flawless 100-carat gem was bought by an anonymous bidder in New York. It was originally mined by De Beers in South Africa.
Abdourahmane Dia
BBC Afrique
Niger's government has ordered the closure of all schools in the capital Niamey for six days following a meningitis outbreak that has so far killed 85 people this year. A shortage of vaccines is said to have caused the outbreak.
The government has announced that a massive vaccination campaign will start on Thursday.
Sammy Darko
BBC Africa, Accra
There is one matter dominating most discussions in Ghana this morning. And that is bushy hair.
The front pages of newspapers say three female students were not allowed to sit the West Africa examinations because their hairstyles broke their school's rules.
It's sparked debate about whether schools should prevent students from writing an external paper because of their appearance.
This is what frog kebab look like:
Nigerian Philip Paul loves them but he can't persuade his neighbours to taste them.
So he's made a business out of catching frogs in the north-east of Nigeria and selling them in central Benue state.
Emmanuel Igunza
BBC Africa, South Sudan
Fresh fighting has erupted in South Sudan's oil-rich town of Malakal, apparently between rival government forces. Heavy mortar and gunfire have been heard overnight and thousands of people have now sought refuge in a UN protection camp.
Nearly 80% of US companies surveyed have failed to adequately check and disclose whether their products contain conflict minerals from Central Africa, according to a report released by campaign groups Amnesty International and Global Witness.
"This is alarming. Well-funded industry groups have fought the conflict minerals law at every step," the report adds, external.
Nomsa Maseko
BBC News, Johannesburg
South African troops have conducted a series of raids in the main city, Johannesburg, to prevent attacks on foreigners. The troops targeted hostels, searching for weapons. It was a show of strength on the first night of their deployment to trouble-hit areas.
Image source, EPAToday's African proverb is: All days are equal but not the same. A Rufumbira/Kinyarwanda proverb sent by Thomson Kwizina, Kampala, Uganda.
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