Anger in Uganda over plans for tax on social media

The sanctions target parliamentry speaker Anita Among and two former ministers for the Karamoja region who allegedly stole thousands of iron sheets from a government housing scheme.

Striking doctors in Kenya hold out as talks with the government lead nowhere after more than six weeks of industrial action.

Thirty years after the end of apartheid, dozens of South Africans have set up a protest camp outside the Constitutional Court. They are demanding reparations for human rights abuses suffered under white minority rule.