Summary

  • Rwanda's parliament approves referendum on changing presidential term limits

  • Starbucks to open coffee shops in South Africa

  • Museveni in Burundi to mediate third-term crisis

  • Buhari tells new Nigeria defence chiefs to 'rebuild military's reputation'

  • US warns Obama's Kenya visit could be 'terrorist' target

Live Reporting

Damian Zane and Naziru Mikailu

  1. Scaffolding kills two in Mozambique

    BBC Africa producer tweets

  2. Uganda brass band plays Abba

    A Ugandan brass band playing Super Trouper by Swedish group Abba might seem incongruous, but the children from the Mlisada organisation are well known for their eclectic musical approach.

    The band, based in the capital, Kampala, is made up of abandoned and orphaned children who earn their money by entertaining people at weddings and other functions.

    The BBC Focus on Africa radio programme has been hearing more from the musicians: 

  3. Museveni now in Burundi

    Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni is travelling through Burundi by road, after having flown to Rwanda's capital, Kigali.

    He is in Burundi to mediate on the third-term crisis.

    Ngonzi is the home area of President Pierre Nkurunziza.

  4. Africa 'must industrialise'

    The head of the AU commission is talking at a meeting on industrialisation at the Forum For Development summit in Addis Ababa:

    And she links the Africans drowning in the Mediterranean as they try to reach Europe to the failure of development on the continent: 

  5. Support for Kagame third term

    There's been a lot of reaction on the @BBCAfrica Twitter account to the news that after a vote in Rwanda's parliament, there is going to be a referendum on whether to drop presidential term limits in the constitution.

    If approved it will pave the way for President Paul Kagame to run for a third term in 2017.

    Many are sympathetic to the president:

    But there is some caution over whether President Kagame is joining a club of leaders who have ruled beyond two terms:

  6. Kenya's Westgate mall to reopen after attack

    Journalists, including the BBC's Kelvin Brown, have been allowed into the Westgate shopping centre in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, before it opens at the weekend.

    Sixty-seven people died in an attack by the Somalia-based militants al-Shabab in September 2013.

  7. Mido to coach Ismaily

    Former Spurs and Egypt striker Ahmed Mido Hossam has been appointed coach of Ismaily.

  8. Reaction to Museveni's Burundi trip

    There's been a swift and mostly sceptical reaction to the news that Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni is in Burundi to mediate on the third-term crisis.

    President Museveni is currently on his fourth term and has been in power since 1986.

    Many are in that vein, but there is one hopeful message:

    All over the world there are some leaders who are reluctant to give up power. The BBC's Owen Bennett-Jones has been looking at the arguments for and against presidential term limits.

    You can get involved by using #BBCAfricaLive hashtag or text us +447756205075

  9. Rwanda constitutional debate

    The editor of Kigali Today has been tweeting about the debate taking place in Rwanda's parliament on whether a referendum to change the constitution to allow President Paul Kagame to run for a third term should be held.

  10. Museveni to mediate in Burundi

    A spokesperson for Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni says he is on his way to Burundi to help mediate in the country's third-term crisis.

    He'll be there on behalf of the East Africa Community.

    President Museveni has been in power since 1986 and is now in his fourth term after the constitution was changed.