Kenya's High Court has ordered immigration officials to ensure that the opposition politician Miguna Miguna returns to the country after he was deported to Canada this month.
The United Nations mission in South Sudan says it has recalled a 46-member peacekeeping police unit after some members allegedly paid local women living in a protection camp for sex.
The two political activists in Kenya prevented from travelling abroad after the government said it has not been formally alerted by the court to reinstate their passports have now been allowed to travel.
Protests and publications that could spark violence have been banned in Ethiopia during a state of emergency imposed since last Friday which would last for six months.
