Summary

  • Kenya's president says Africa should "give up aid"

  • Ghana FA facing audit over "missing money"

  • Al-Shabab says it has killed 30 Ethiopian soldiers in Somalia

  1. S Sudan spend on soldierspublished at 17:46 British Summer Time 12 June 2015

    Journalist Martin Plaut criticises South Sudan's government spending priorities.

  2. Backlash against Angelinapublished at 16:24 British Summer Time 12 June 2015

    Not everyone is impressed with US actor Angelina Jolie giving a speech about rape during war at the African Union summit.

  3. 'Not clear' which grouppublished at 16:12 British Summer Time 12 June 2015

    The BBC reporter in Tunisia is saying that there are no details yet over who may have attacked the Tunisian consulate in Tripoli:

  4. No shirts for gamepublished at 16:04 British Summer Time 12 June 2015

    BBC sports reporter Oluwashina Okeleji, external links to an article claiming Chad's football team didn't have kits for the Africa Cup Nations qualifying match after their luggage went missing in transit.

  5. Portable presidentpublished at 13:53 British Summer Time 12 June 2015

    BBC Africa's Zenaida Machado spotted this picture of a signing ceremony in Mozambique.

    A local administrator is signing a register to say that the country's peace torch has visited his town.

    The president was not there, but someone helpfully provided his portrait.

  6. Angelina Jolie speaks at AU summitpublished at 13:44 British Summer Time 12 June 2015

    BBC Afrique Journalist Sophie Ribstein is tweeting key points from US actor Angelina Jolie's speech to the African Union summit in South Africa

    And the AU commission head Nkosozana Dlamini Zuma is encouraging women to include men in changing the situation:

  7. Social media ministerpublished at 13:35 British Summer Time 12 June 2015

    South Africa's Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula is well known for his Twitter presence, but it looks like he has now adopted another social media tool: Snapchat.

    It appears he has joined in with the African Union golf theme.

  8. Ebola curfewpublished at 13:03 British Summer Time 12 June 2015

    Sierra Leonean journalist Umaru Fofana reminds us people are still fighting against the spread of Ebola in his country.

  9. Presidents play golfpublished at 09:41 British Summer Time 12 June 2015

    This weekend's African Union heads of state meeting is teeing-off with a golf event. South Africa's President Jacob Zuma was one of the first to go at the Royal Johannesburg and Kensington golf club.

    Today has been labelled the Presidential Golf Day.