The President of Mozambique, Filipe Nyusi has joined thousands of mourners at the public square in the country's port city of Beira to mourn the late opposition leader Afonso Dhlakama.
A mining company in Zimbabwe riddled with rising debt and unable to pay its workers' salaries dating back to five years is now considering selling the mining town it operates to settle its debts.
The Democratic Republic of Congo has been hit by new Ebola outbreak with officials on Tuesday saying that two new cases were detected in the country's north-west region.
Zimbabwe's parliament has said that the planned questioning of the country's former President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday over some diamond mining operations has now been delayed.
The military in Nigeria has said that over 1,000 people held hostage by Islamist militant group Boko Haram in the northeast of the country have been rescued.
The Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari will on Tuesday travel to London in the UK for a four day medical check-up, according to his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu.
