Nigeria oil minister says the country's fuel scarcity will soon be over
Six men are charged in Kenya over an alleged attack on an Uber driver
Niger's opposition leader Hama Amadou 'freed on bail'
French naval forces seize arms cache thought to be bound for Somalia
US agency calls off $470m aid deal for Tanzania
Kenyan authorities scrap plan to expand the country's main airport
Hijacker of EgyptAir flight forced to land in Cyprus arrested
We've received a picture of at least some of the weapons discovered on a boat in the Indian Ocean by the French navy (see 13:02 entry).
Image source, Combined Maritime ForcesIt's believed that the boat was on its way to Somalia to supply al-Shabab militants.
It is not clear what else was in the arms cache, or if the picture shows the extent of what was seized.
Who's got what it takes to reach the Africa Cup of Nations in 2017? That's the question being asked across the continent today, as 30 African Nations line up in qualifiers for the tournament finals in Gabon next year.
You can check the full fixture list, external on the Confederation of African Football website.
A South African Sports channel has picked some of its favourites, with the standout tie surely Egypt v Nigeria, where the Super Eagles must avoid defeat to have any chance of qualifying.
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Tunisia is struggling to cope with high levels of youth unemployment, which have persisted since the 2011 revolution that ousted long-term President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.
More than half of the country's population is under the age of 29 and most of them are finding it hard to get a job.
The situation led to violent protests earlier this year in several parts of the country, once seen as the model of the Arab Spring.
The tourism industry, which is vital to Tunisia's economy, has also been hit hard by last year's terrorist attacks in the resort town of Sousse and a museum in the capital, Tunis.
The BBC's Rana Jawad has been speaking to students about their concerns.
Tunisia's battle with youth unemployment
Niger's jailed opposition leader Hama Amadou has been granted bail by a court in Niger.
Mr Amadou is currently in France, where he was flown earlier this month to receive specialist medical treatment.
Before that he was being held in prison in Niger on baby-trafficking charges, which he denies, arguing they are politically motivated.
President Mahamadou Issoufou was re-elected for a second term by a landslide in a run-off vote last week, which the opposition had boycotted.
Mr Amadou had campaigned for the first round of voting from behind bars.
"The decision is clear, he is free as of today," Mr Amadou's lawyer Mossi Boubacar was quoted by AFP as saying.
Image source, AFPHama Amadou was not free to campaign
European diplomats are quoted as saying that the EU plans to reduce funding for Burundi's lucrative peacekeeping force in Somalia as a way of putting pressure on the Burundian president, Pierre Nkurunziza.
The diplomats told Reuters news agency the money would no longer be channelled through the government.
The international community is pushing for Mr Nkurunziza to enter talks with the opposition to avert a full-scale conflict.
The 20% kept by the state, worth about $13m (£9m) a year, would be cut.
More than 5,000 Burundian soldiers serve in the 22,000-strong African Union force in Somalia.
Image source, ReutersMore than 400 people have been killed in political unrest since last April
Tomi Oladipo
BBC Africa security correspondent
French naval forces patrolling the north of the Indian Ocean have seized a shipment of weapons they say was heading towards Somalia.
The weapons included hundreds of assault rifles, machine guns and anti-tank weapons.
This comes just weeks after the Australian navy intercepted a cache of arms also being shipped towards Somalia.
The ship was spotted by a French surveillance helicopter which is part of the multinational force that patrols the Indian Ocean.
The French forces seized the weapons under a UN embargo to prevent arms from getting to Somalia-based Islamist militants al-Shabab.
The naval coalition has hailed this discovery as a success although it has not revealed any information about those transporting the weapons.
Image source, APThe Cypriot foreign affairs ministry says the crisis has ended with the arrest of the alleged hijacker
Live pictures of the hijacked EgyptAir plane on the tarmac in Cyprus appear to show more people leaving. Reuters are reporting a fifth person seen leaving. If earlier reports are accurate, this would mean at least two people remain on the plane.
Kenya's airport authority has scrapped a plan to build a third terminal at the country's main international airport in the capital, Nairobi.
The first phase was supposed to open in 2018, and it was projected that the building would enable the airport to handle an extra 20 million passengers, external at a cost of $645m (£450m).
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport is one of the continent's main hubs.
The Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) has tweeted that "operational, economic and financial dynamics" have made things more difficult:
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In a statement, external, KAA says that the recently added Terminal 2, plus refurbishments to Terminal 1, will increase the capacity to 10.5 million passengers.
This still shows one person escaping from the plane via the cockpit window. The person clambered on to a structure before jumping to the ground and jogging away from the plane towards safety.
Image source, TV grabThe BBC's Nigeria sports reporter has tweeted an update to his earlier post that the Super Eagles were too tried to train on Monday, ahead of their vital Africa Cup of Nations qualifier in Egypt.
It looks like they did get an hour in:
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The team's official Twitter account has posted some pictures of the brief session:
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Nigeria must avoid defeat to still have a chance of getting through to next year's final.
Parts of the capital of Congo-Brazzaville are deserted following an opposition call for a strike over the outcome of the recent election, the AFP news agency reports.
It says that opposition strongholds have been affected.
Incumbent President Denis Sassou Nguesso was elected for a third term with more than 60% of the vote, but his challengers alleged there was "massive fraud".
The strike call echoed demonstrations last year that were held as the president changed the constitution to allow him to run for a third term.
Image source, AFPPresident Denis Sassou Nguesso has governed Congo-Brazzaville for 32 years
A police sniper keeps watch at Larnaca airport, while Cypriot security forces drive past the hijacked EgyptAir Airbus A-320 parked on the tarmac.
Image source, AFP
Image source, AFPA lion known as Sylvester has escaped from a game reserve in South Africa and is roaming in a sparsely populated mountain region, the Reuters news agency reports, quoting the South African National Parks (SANParks) organisation.
Quote MessageWe realised early yesterday morning when they check all the satellite tracking collars that he had escaped. We are awaiting a helicopter to begin an aerial search."
SANParks spokeswoman Fayroush Ludick
It's thought that Sylvester crawled under an electric fence that had been damaged in the recent heavy rains.
Sylvester also escaped last year.
Image source, AFPSouth Africa has a large lion population
Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades appeared to see the funny side of the situation during an earlier joint press conference.
"It's not something which is to do with terrorism, you know what I mean," he tells reporters, before starting to chuckle.
"Always there is a woman involved," he adds, with more laughter as he walks out of the room.
Earlier reports suggested the hijacker had demanded to see his estranged wife, who lives in Cyprus.
Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades: "There is always a woman involved"
An AFP editor in Paris has been tweeting some stunning pictures from Congo-Brazzaville by photographer Marco Longari:
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Nigeria's Super Eagles must avoid being beaten by Egypt later today (kick off at 17:00 GMT) to still have a chance of qualifying for next year's Africa Cup of Nations finals in Gabon.
The game is in Alexandria, but flight delays meant that the team was not able to train yesterday.
A BBC sports reporter in Nigeria has been tweeting:
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Seven hostages remain aboard the plane, Egyptian civil aviation minister Sherif Fathy just said at a news conference.
They are the captain, a co-pilot, a female crew member, a security officer and three passengers.
Mr Fathy did not reveal the nationalities of the passengers nor the identity of the hijacker.
Image source, AFPMost passengers have been allowed to disembark from the plane
Egypt's foreign ministry spokesperson denies making comments to the Guardian, which earlier quoted officials as calling the hijacker "an idiot, not a terrorist".
Journalist Ruth Michaelson, who had quoted the officials, responded that "no one said it was the spokesperson".
What exactly does Tanzania stand to lose after US aid agency the MCC announced it would not go ahead with a new aid agreement, which was due to be signed this year? (scroll down for earlier entry at 09:46)
According to an MCC statement , externalcarried on the Tanzanian government website, the deal would have provided $470m towards the "power sector, including investments in infrastructure as well as policy, regulatory and institutional reforms".
A previous five-year deal signed in 2008 released $700m in financial support to improve energy, water and transport infrastructure.
The cancellation of the deal is likely to cause a serious headache for President John Magufuli (pictured below), who has been widely praised for his efforts to tackle corruption since coming to power last November.
Image source, AFP