African news and analysis from the BBC's Focus on Africa and Network Africa programmes; the Africa Today podcast contains the day's top stories from the continent - available to download Monday to Friday from 1630 GMT.
A big party in Arusha as East Africa moves towards closer union. More than fifty thousand displaced by ethnic clashes in the north of the Democratic Republic of Congo. And why Sierra Leone's police is enlisting thousands of youth to help in the fight against crime.
...MORETwenty six people found guilty of a failed coup plot in Ethiopia, one of those alleged to be behind it says it had nothing to do with him. Why squabbling legislators have delayed the presentation of Nigeria's budget. And, how strong will the African challenge be at next year's World Cup?
...MORENearly 50 killed in more fighting in southern Sudan ... the region's agriculture minister tells us how he escaped death in an attack on his convoy at the weekend. And deposed parliamentary opposition leader in Malawi John Tembo claims democracy has been subverted
...MOREThe leader of the Rwandan Hutu militias in the eastern Congo is arrested in Germany. Kenya edges closer to a new constitution. And corruption remains a serious challenge in African countries.
...MOREThe UN Hunger Summit opens, with a question; why do people still not have enough to eat? The last deadline for settlers to leave Kenya's Mau Forest. And a Zambian newspaper editor who printed pictures of a woman giving birth in a car park is cleared of pornography charges.
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