Teachers in Kenya and Uganda want a pay rise while students in South Africa want free education. 

Our own make-believe President Olushambles wonders if we really need school anyway.

And if education really must exist, he wants to add a module on why it's your duty to respect your leader:

This graph gives a quick view of how Ebola cases have fallen drastically.

It shows the weekly number of cases of Ebola since the outbreak was declared.

Sierra Leone is due to be declared as Ebola-free by the World Health Organization on Saturday.

The Zambian government has told large supermarkets to start stocking locally-produced food.

Although the value of the local currency - the kwacha - has fallen, some supermarkets are still importing basics like potatoes.

The BBC's Kennedy Gondwe reports from the Zambia's capital, Lusaka, for Africa Business Report.  

Patrick and his workmates in are in the mood to party. 

They're still in the office in Freetown, Sierra Leone,  but they're celebrating the expected announcement that the country is free from Ebola:

Remember the #KenyansVsZimbabweans hashtag earlier this week?

BBC Trending says it all started after the Kenyan news site The Spectator claimed Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said: "Those people of East Africa shock me with their wizardry in stealing."

And then came the twist: It appears there is now significant doubt that President Robert Mugabe made these remarks at all.

Sinai-based militants linked to the so-called Islamic State say they destroyed the Russian plane which crashed on Saturday.

But the Egyptian government have dismissed this as propaganda.

The BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner weighs up the evidence:

Tulanana Bohela
BBC Africa, Dar es Salaam

On his first full day in office Tanzanian President John Magufuli has made a surprise visit to the government treasury. 

He walked to the office from the nearby state house after swearing in the new attorney general.

He talked to civil servants but there was no official statement about the issues he addressed.

I was told that he talked about the state student loans.

During the election campaign Mr Magufuli promised free education for primary and secondary school children.

In this short video you can see him leaving the building as staff ululated:

Protests have continued at South African universities despite the planned fee rise being halted.

Students and university workers have also been campaigning for an end to outsourcing contracts for things like cleaning and catering.

Now a small group of demonstrators from the University of Johannesburg (UJ) have been detained by police.

Reporters from the SABC are tweeting what's happening:

Nigeria will face Mali in Sunday's under-17 World Cup final in Chile after winning their semi-finals on Thursday night.

Football's world governing body Fifa has uploaded highlights of Nigeria's 4-2 victory over Mexico.

Watch Kelechi Nwakali score from a free kick 27 seconds in. But the prize for the best individual effort has to go to Mexico's Diego Cortes one minute into the video:

There are also highlights of Mali's 3-1 win over Belgium.

At just over a minute into the video you can see Belgium's goalkeeping howler which allowed Sidiki Maiga to score: 

A BBC producer is tweeting from Sharm el-Sheikh airport:

The British budget airline, EasyJet, has suspended its repatriation flights from Sharm el-Sheikh. 

A statement on the company's website says the Egyptian authorities have currently suspended UK airlines from flying into Sharm El Sheikh, which means that flights will now not operate today.

Tourists have been stranded in the resort after a Russian airliner crashed in Egypt.  

ABC News's foreign correspondent tweets the latest update in Egypt's tourist resort Sharm el-Sheikh.

The UK government cancelled flights to and from the resort on Wednesday amid fears a Russian passenger plane had been brought down by a bomb.

Tourists from the UK and Russia are now queuing up to get their flights:

Image source, AP

Read more on the background  of the plane crash on the BBC News website.

Image source, EPA

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has told the BBC that the international community must press for change in neighbouring Eritrea if it wants to prevent Europe's migrant crisis from worsening. 

Mr Hailemariam criticised the policies of the Eritrean regime, including enforced military service, which he said was causing large numbers of young people to flee. 

Mr Hailemariam said his government was ready to support refugees with education, training, and in some cases jobs, but he added that Ethiopians already had problems of their own.