'Up to 100,000' flee South Sudan fighting
Suspected militant Islamists target Nigeria students
Burundi's leader defies critics over presidential bid
Alleged CIA agent assassinated in Somalia
Ex-football star's assets seized in Egypt
That's it from us this week. Listen to the Africa Today podcast and keep up-to-date with stories from across the continent on the BBC News website.
We leave you with this photo from Africa's week in pictures of a work by Kenyan artist Wangeti Mutu called The End of Carrying All.
Image source, EPAIn the red corner, President Figleaf. In the blue corner, President Olushambles. And he is ready to rumble!
Listen to BBC Africa's Resident Presidents' latest kerfuffle., external
Ahmed Rouaba
BBC Arabic
Algeria has been commemorating the 70th anniversary of the killing of thousands by French colonial security forces in the eastern cities of Setif, Guelma and Kherrata.
Just as the world was celebrating the victory over Nazi Germany, thousands of Algerians took to the streets holding British, French and Soviet flags to celebrate
The demonstrations and celebrations turned into riots in Setif after French police shot dead a young scout who brandished the green and white flag, symbol of independent Algeria.
French historians, based on testimonies of witnesses and police as well as intelligence reports, say between 15,000 and 20,000 Algerians perished.
But Algeria is still waiting for France to officially apologise.
Image source, AFPA French minister laid a wreath at the memorial of the massacres in Setif in April, but the country has apologised
Ghanaian artist El Anatsui was recently awarded the Golden Lion lifetime achievement at the contemporary art exhibition Venice Biennale.
He is known for using used materials, like in this one called Earth's Skin.
Image source, AFPIn BBC Artbeat Africa he explains, external why he uses second-hand material.
"When things have been used they have acquired a lot of history and meaning and maybe a lot of spiritual energy as well."
United Nations refugee chief Antonio Guterres has visited the sprawling Dadaab refugee camp in north-eastern Kenya.
Here is welcomed by refugees from South Sudan:
Image source, AFPMost of the refugees are from Somalia and they watched his arrival:
Image source, AFP
Image source, AFPThe Kenyan government asked the UN refugee agency to close the camp after Somali militant Islamists killed 148 people at Garissa University College last month.
Up to 100,000 people have fled a week of heavy fighting in South Sudan's key northern oil state of Unity, the United Nations has said.
"This comes at the peak of the traditional planting season, when people need to be able to move freely and safely to be able to tend to their crops," it added in a statement, external.
South Sudan has been hit by conflict between forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and his sacked deputy Riek Machar since December 2013.
Image source, AFPMr Machar (C) was once a close ally of the president
Commenters have been reacting on the BBC Africa Facebook, external page to Burundian leader Pierre Nkurunziza's controversial decision to seek a third term in elections due in June.
Micheal Mills says: "African Union should have a rapid response force that can enter any country and remove presidents that insist on remaining in power against the laws of their countries."
Bashir Yusuf takes a different view: "I urge Burundians to stop protests. Get your voter cards ready. It is the most powerful and effective weapon in politics. Remember what happened in Nigeria."
The Ebola virus has been detected in the eye of a US doctor who had already recovered from the illness.
The medic, who caught the bug while working in Sierra Leone, had blurred eyesight and a burning sensation two months after being declared Ebola-free.
Scientists say his eye infection presents no risk to the public.
But doctors are calling for more help for survivors in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia where recovering patients are reporting eye problems.
Satirist Ikenna Azuike says there's plenty the UK could learn from Nigeria.
Just take post-election celebration.
This is Nigerian celebrations:
Image source, APHe found the planned UK celebrations weren't quite so enthusiastic:
Watch him ask a befuddled UK public if they are expecting post-election violence on Focus on Africa on BBC World at 17:30 GMT.
South Africa's Business Day newspaper reports, external that the number of dollar millionaires in the country is rising despite the depreciation of the local currency.
Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza says the crisis sparked by his decision to run for a third term is being "easily managed" and elections will go ahead in June.
Image source, AFPMr Nkurunziza has been in power for a decade
"Violence isn't spiralling out of control," Mr Nkurunziza said in the capital Bujumbura after submitting his name as a candidate to the electoral commission.
"What you are seeing here in Bujumbura is very much like what we have also seen in other countries, not forgetting the hardest times in Burundi such as in 1993 and in 2005 [when] it was really serious."
At least 18 people have been killed in protests since his party nominated him for re-election on 25 April.
The UN refugee agency says more than 50,000 Burundians have fled to neighbouring countries fearing violence ahead of the June 26 elections.
Adrian Edwards, a United Nations High Commission for Refugees spokesman, said Rwanda is hosting the largest number of refugees with 25,000 followed by Tanzania with 17,696.
The BBC's Tulunana Bohela has been following refugees from Burundi who took the ferry across Lake Tanganyika from Burundi to Tanzania.
Today they have been packed into buses headed for Nyarugusu camp.
Survivors have been recalling how suspected militant Islamists attacked a business college in north-eastern Nigeria's Potiskum town this morning.
Student Mustapha Umar told the AFP news agency that one of the gunmen "kept firing sporadic shots" as other students tried to chase him away.
"When he ran out of ammunition he detonated the explosives under his robe, killing himself but no-one from the crowd."
Image source, APThe bomber detonated himself in the college's car park
Abdullahi Kaura Abubakar
BBC Africa, Nigeria
Today's gun and bomb attack in north-eastern Nigeria's Potiskum town (see earlier post) comes despite the fact that militant Islamist group Boko Haram is under renewed pressure.
A military operation is continuing in its Sambisa forest stronghold. Senior Nigerian officers say many of the insurgents have been killed and those still alive are on the run.
Image source, APThe attack has left at least five students seriously wounded
Despite this, Boko Haram is still able to carry out isolated attacks like today's. Observers say unless senior members of the group are captured, the militants may be able to regroup and rearm, both within and outside Nigeria's borders.
Egypt's authorities have seized the assets of former football star Mohamed Aboutrika.
It follows allegations that he helped fund the banned Muslim Brotherhood.
In response, Aboutrika tweeted, external (in Arabic) that he would not leave the country and would continue to work for Egypt's prosperity.
Aboutrika was named the 2008 BBC African Footballer of the Year.
Image source, Getty ImagesMohamed Aboutrika played in the 2013 world cup
UN special envoy Said Djinnit has brokered talks between Burundi's rival groups in an attempt to end the deepening crisis over Pierre Nkurunziza's decision to run for a third term.
Government, opposition and church representatives agreed that all perpetrators of violence should face justice "internally or internationally", a joint statement after the meeting said.
At least 18 people have been killed in protests since President Nkuruziza's party chose him as their candidate on 25 April to run for a third term in in elections in June.
Emmanuel Igunza
BBC Africa, Bujumbura
Burundi's electoral commission has ruled out postponing controversial presidential elections scheduled for June.
Its chairman Pierre Ndayicariye told me that the climate for elections was better now than in previous elections.
Image source, AFPPolice have been battling protesters since last month
Yesterday, African Union commission chief Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said she could not see how elections could be held amid protests against President Pierre Nkuruziza's bid for a third term.
An eight-year-old Ivorian boy has been smuggled into Spain from Morocco inside a suitcase, Spanish police say.
This photo provided by the Spanish Guardia Civil shows an X-ray of the boy in a suitcase:
Image source, AFP /The boy's father lives in the Canary Islands and had hoped to be reunited with his son, the Spanish newspaper El Pais said, external.
Image source, ReutersThe UK election results are being followed closely in Nigeria, if Twitter is anything to go by.
According to Trends 24, external, UK election-related subjects have been among the top trending topics for at least the last six hours.
In the last hour, politicians Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage have both been in the top 10 trending topics. That corresponds with both of them standing down as the leaders of their parties, the Liberal Democrats and UKIP, after the results in the election did not go in their favour.
Image source, Trends 24Rwandan President Paul Kagame's office has tweeted, external about Burundian leader Pierre Nkurunziza's decision to run for a third term, despite calls for him to step down.
"If your own citizens tell you we don't want you to lead us, how do you say I am staying whether you want me or not," it quotes Mr Kagame as saying.