A town in southern Somalia has banned men and women dancing together at weddings, a local radio station is reporting.Barawe’s district commissioner cited Islamic law as the reason for the dancing ban.
An auction is being held in South Africa for the opportunity to spend a night in Nelson Mandela’s former prison on Robben Island.A charity is taking bids, opening at $250,000 (£330,000), to allow 67 people to stay overnight in the old maximum-security jail, where the former South African anti-apartheid leader spent 18 of his 27 years behind bars.
India's government has asked messaging service WhatsApp to act urgently to halt the spread of "irresponsible and explosive messages" on its platform after a spate of deadly attacks.
Religious leaders in Kenya have urged President Uhuru Kenyatta to declare the levels of corruption in the country a national disaster so the fight to tackle it can be made a priority.
There have been mounting calls for the resignation of Malawi's President Peter Mutharika after a leaked report by the country's anti-graft agency accused him of receiving a kickback from a 2.8bn kwacha ($3.9m; £2.8m) contract to supply food to the police.
The Montreal International Jazz Festival has cancelled performances of a controversial show heavily featuring African-American slave songs.
Fifa boss Gianni Infantino has said that he is sad no African team made it to the knock-out stages of the World Cup.All five African teams - Egypt, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal and Tunisia - exited this year's competition in the group stages.
An arrest warrant has been issued for the owners of the dam in western Kenya that burst in May, killing 47 people.
Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom has lost his latest court battle against extradition from New Zealand to the US.
A man and woman found unconscious in Wiltshire were poisoned by Novichok - the same nerve agent that poisoned ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal, police say.
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