Breaking Newspublished at 09:23 British Summer Time 5 May 2015
Burundi's Constitutional court has allowed President Pierre Nkurunziza to vie for a third-term, according to local FM stations.
Summary
Burundi court backs third-term bid
First visit of a US secretary of state to Somalia
Senegal to send 2,100 troops to Yemen
Ugandan MPs 'get 40% pay rise'
Kenya cattle raid in north-west kills 46
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Breaking Newspublished at 09:23 British Summer Time 5 May 2015
Senegal to aid Saudi Arabiapublished at 09:21 British Summer Time 5 May 2015
Senegal is to send 2,100 troops to support the Saudi-led campaign in Yemen, its foreign minister says.
The West African nation was responding to a Saudi request to help secure the kingdom's border with Yemen, Mankeur Ndiaye said.
But the BBC's Abdourahmane Dia in Senegal's capital, Dakar, says the majority of newspapers are questioning the decision, with Le Temoin Quotidien calling it "controversial".
Le Quotidien says President Macky Sall is in the "eye of a storm" as MPs want to know why permission was not sought from parliament first.
Pay rise 'to motivate' Ugandan MPspublished at 09:08 British Summer Time 5 May 2015
Uganda's Daily Monitor newspaper reports that MPs have been awarded a 40% pay rise. It says the move is "intended to motivate members" ahead of general elections next year.
Image source, Daily MonitorWise wordspublished at 09:08 British Summer Time 5 May 2015
Today's African proverb: "The sleep that lasts from one market day to another becomes death." An Igbo proverb sent by Ihunegbo Oluchi in Enugu, Nigeria.
Postpublished at 08:58 British Summer Time 5 May 2015
Welcome to the BBC Africa Live page. We will be bringing you news updates from across the continent as it is being reported that a senior judge has fled Burundi ahead of a constitutional court ruling on the president's third-term bid.