Boko Haram captives shown in Nigeria army photos
Historic right to die ruling in South Africa
Burundi university shut as protests continue
France vows no mercy over CAR sex abuse allegations
Nigeria and South Africa leaders talk amid diplomatic row
The international trade fair in northern Nigeria's Kaduna city seems to be a disaster this year, reports the BBC's Nura Mohammed Ringim from there.
Usually, companies from around the world attend the annual event but many of them stayed away this year because of security concerns and the devaluation of Nigeria's currency, he says.
BBC Monitoring
Zimbabwe's telecoms regulator is closing down mobile network provider Telecel, which has a market share of 19.5%, for "failing to comply with licensing and indigenization requirements", Zimbabwe's Herald reports, external.
Image source, HeraldThe regulator says it is giving the company a 30-day "dispensation" to continue providing telecommunications services as it winds down its operations.
Maud Jullien
BBC Africa, Bujumbura
Students at University of Burundi are angry that the government has shut the campus, as protests against President Pierre Nkurunziza's third-term bid continue (see earlier post).
Student Roger Irambona says the authorities are punishing them for something they are not involved in.
"Those who are protesting are not students," he said. "It is the people in Bujumbura who are against the third term. Students are here to study."
A Nigerian army spokesman has told BBC Hausa that more than 160 people were freed from Boko Haram-controlled territory in the Sambisa Forest on Wednesday.
They included more than 100 girls and boys and more than 60 women and girls during the military operation in the Sambisa Forest, Sani Usman said.
The mental health condition of those freed is being checked and they are being kept at a secure location, Col Usman said.
He added that eight of the women injured in the operation were in a critical condition (see earlier post).
France's President Francois Hollande has vowed to punish peacekeepers in Central African Republic (CAR) if they are found guilty of sexually assaulting children.
"If some soldiers have behaved badly, I will show no mercy," he told reporters.
A leaked UN report suggested that orphaned boys as young as nine were were subjected to sexual abuse by some French peacekeepers in CAR (see earlier post).
Image source, AFPFrance sent troops to CAR in 2013 to help end religious and ethnic conflict
Protesters are marching in Burundi's capital, Bujumbura, with a decapitated eagle. The bird is a symbol of the ruling party:
Image source, APStudents have been forced to leave the main university after the government shut it down in an attempt to quell protests against President Pierre Nkurunziza's bid to extend his decade-long rule in elections in June:
Image source, APThe police were out in force in volatile areas:
Image source, APA South African campaign group has welcomed a court ruling giving a terminally ill man the right to end his life with the help of a doctor.
Dignity SA board member Willem Landman described it as a "fantastic ruling", the local News24 website reports, external.
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Milton Nkosi
BBC News, Johannesburg
A South African court has granted a terminally ill man the right to die.
Robin Stransham-Ford, 65, was granted an order by the Pretoria High Court allowing a doctor to help him end his life.
The justice and health ministers, as well as the Health Professions Council of SA, opposed the application.
Mr Stransham-Ford, a former advocate, was diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer in 2013.
Kenya's Interior Minster Joseph Nkaissery has told parliament that security officers in Garissa ignored intelligence prior to the attack on Garissa University College. He also admitted that the response was poorly coordinated.
The Somali Islamist group al-Shabab carried out the 2 April attack in which at least 148 people died.
Image source, EPAThe victims of the Garissa attack were mourned across Kenya
The BBC's Maud Jullien in Burundi is following the talks between an American diplomat and President Pierre Nukurunziza.
She tweets, external: "US assistant secretary @Malinowski told #Burundi President Nkurunziza 'there needs to be a space for opposition + peaceful protest'".
Our correspondent also says: "U.S. assistant secretary @Malinowski told Nkurunziza #Burundi is 'like a boiling pot, if you put a lid on it it will continue to boil"'.
Burundi has been by protests since the weekend following Mr Nkurunziza's decision to run for a third term in elections in June.
The presidents of South Africa and Nigeria have spoken for the first time since Nigeria recalled its top diplomats from Pretoria over a spate of attacks against foreigners.
The two men "reaffirmed the warm and cordial relations" between the two countries, says a statement from the office of South Africa's President Jacob Zuma, external.
They also "pledged... to work together for the good of their peoples and the continent".
South Africa had said that withdrawing the diplomats last weekend was "unfortunate and regrettable" and added it "would be curious for a sisterly country to want to exploit such a painful episode".
Image source, ReutersThere were protests in Nigeria's city of Lagos over the xenophobic attacks in South Africa
Image source, StandardKenya's Standard leads today on economic concerns. The economy grew by 5.3% last year, the lowest figure for five years, the report says, external.
The newspaper highlights the problems in the tourism sector, which it says has been hit by "the wave of terrorism".
Raissa Ioussouf
BBC Afrique, Dakar
Senegal's government has confirmed that at least 200 of its nationals were killed in a shipwreck in the Mediterranean on 19 April.
They were among more than 800 migrants who died while making the treacherous journey from Libya to Italy.
Senegal's foreign ministry official Sorry Kaba said they learned of the deaths from Somali survivors of the wreckage, and other contacts in Libya.
Image source, APThousands of migrants risk their lives to reach Europe
Nigeria's army says it has rescued more women and children from Boko Haram camps in an area where the Islamist militant group is active.
During the operation to free them "one woman died and eight other women sustained gun shot wounds", says a military statement. It adds that nine Boko Haram camps were destroyed in the latest action in Sambisa Forest.
On Tuesday the military said it had freed nearly 300 women and children.
Image source, AFPThe army says it has made gains against the militants in recent months
The UN has defended the suspension of an aid worker who leaked to French prosecutors a report accusing peacekeepers of child abuse in Central African Republic (CAR).
The leak was a "serious breach of protocol" and raised concerns about the protection of witnesses and victims, a spokesman said.
Swedish aid worker Anders Kompass leaked the report, accusing French peacekeepers of rape and sodomy.
Sweden said his suspension was "worrisome" and the UN should show "zero tolerance" towards sexual abuse.
Image source, MonitorThe new cars that Uganda's ruling party has bought for its officials is one of the stories in today's Daily Monitor, external. There are questions over where the National Resistance Movement (NRM) got the $1m (£640,000) for the vehicles, reports the newspaper.
Some are asking if the money came from the electoral commission's fund for all political parties, but the newspaper quotes an NRM official who says the party has many sources of funding.
Maud Jullien
BBC Africa, Bujumbura
The University of Burundi has been shut down, as protests against President Pierre Nkurunziza's bid for a third term in June's elections continue for a fifth day in the capital, Bujumbura.
At the campus, students are packing their bags and leaving.
Meanwhile, top US official Tom Malinowski is due to meet President Nkurunziza in Bujumbura today. He has said Mr Nkurunziza's refusal to step down violates the peace accord which officially ended Burundi's civil war in 2005.
Image source, APProtesters have vowed to force Mr Nkurunziza out of office
A father's search for his missing daughter who he fears was a victim of the Garissa University College attack is one of the stories in today's Kenyan Daily Nation.
The official death toll from the al-Shabab attack on 2 April is 148 and the authorities say that everyone has been accounted for. But there are a number of families still looking for missing relatives who many have been caught up in the violence.
Today's African proverb is: If the frying pan is not heated up, the corn cannot pop. A Yoruba proverb sent by Samuel Fayiah Johnson, Ibadan, Nigeria.
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