At least 23 children have been killed in a fire at a boarding school in a suburb near the Liberian capital Monrovia.
Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's first post-independence leader, has died aged 95. His family confirmed his death to the BBC. Mr Mugabe had been receiving treatment in a hospital in Singapore since April.
Rwanda has restricted movement across its border with the DR Congo, where an Ebola outbreak has killed more than 1,800 people in the past year.
Kenya's finance minister has surrendered himself to the police after the chief prosecutor ordered his arrest over allegations of corruption.
Henry Rotich is accused of flouting procurement procedures in awarding a contract worth over $450m (£405m) for the construction of two dams to the Italian company CMC de Ravenna.
The first Ebola patient in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s largest city, Goma, has died, the government said on Tuesday.
Sudan's military leaders have reached an agreement with the opposition alliance to share power until elections can be held, mediators say.
At least 40 people have been killed by an air strike that hit a migrant detention centre in Libya, officials say.
Dozens of people were feared killed following an explosion from a fuel tanker which flipped near a village in north-central Nigeria, according to local officials and witnesses on Tuesday.
After nearly 30 years in power, Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has been ousted and arrested, the defence minister says.
Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is resigning after weeks of mass protests, state media report.
Russia's unmanned Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the Moon after spinning out of control, officials say.
Donald Trump has confirmed that he will not take part in Republican presidential debates with his rivals in the race for the White House.