BBC News – Africa

• Kano schools empty after Nigeria attacks January 28, 2012
  Christian classes shunned by fearful parents in Kano […]
• VIDEO: New Libya torture claims emerge January 28, 2012
  The BBC has seen further evidence that former supporters of Colonel Gaddafi have been tortured in Libyan jails. […]
• Senegal Wade ruling fuels clashes January 28, 2012
  Violence breaks out in Senegal after the country's top court rules that President Abdoulaye Wade can run for a third term in office. […]
• Warning over Niger harvest crisis January 28, 2012
  The opportunity to avert a major food crisis in the West African state of Niger is closing fast, Save the Children warns. […]
• New Libya torture claims emerge January 28, 2012
  The BBC hears accounts from prison inmates in Libya suggesting that supporters of former leader Col Gaddafi are being tortured in detention. […]
• African Union to open donated HQ January 28, 2012
  The African Union is about to inaugurate its newly built Chinese-funded headquarters in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. […]
• South Sudan 'nears oil shutdown' January 28, 2012
  South Sudan says it will complete its threatened shutdown of oil production on Saturday after no deal was reached with Sudan over pipeline use. […]
• Gabon 3-2 Morocco January 27, 2012
  Co-hosts Gabon snatch an incredible late winner to put them through to the quarter-finals and send Morocco out. […]
• Anger at Congo parliament result January 27, 2012
  DR Congo's main opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi dismisses poll results and tells his newly elected MPs not to take up their seats. […]
• Ethiopian army 'to leave Somalia' January 27, 2012
  Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi says he will withdraw his troops from Somalia once African Union forces are there in sufficient numbers. […]