On Friday, the BBC's Newsday programme will be broadcasting live from Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, which has been in turmoil since a coup by mainly Muslim Seleka rebels in 2013. 

A recent upsurge of violence in the capital has displaced a further 40,000 people from their homes. 

Newsday's Julian Keane joined a patrol of French peacekeepers out on the streets of the capital:

Click here to listen live to Newsday from 05:00 GMT (or after the broadcast). 

Al Jazeera has tweeted about its documentary Out Of The Shadows, focusing on the mental health activists bringing treatment to people in rural West Africa and other developing parts of the world:

Cameroonian midfielder Wilfrid Kaptoum made his first team debut for none other than European champions Barcelona on Wednesday night.

The 19-year-old played in the Copa del Rey as an under-strength Barca were held by third-tier minnows Villanovense. The first leg tie ended nil-nil.

Barecelona posted tweeted about the landmark, with this video of him in action for the youth team:

Nigeria's senate has now approved the list of 36 names that President Muhammadu Buhari had proposed for his cabinet.

Today's senate session to look at the last names on the list was very stormy according to the BBC Chris Ewokor in the capital, Abuja.

He says that this was because of a row over the former Rivers state governor, Rotimi Amaechi - who is not popular with opposition senators.

Now that the list has been approved, the senate president said the cabinet members should now live up to expectations:

Image source, AFP

This will be President Buhari's first cabinet since he was sworn in five months ago.

Tomi Oladipo
BBC Africa security correspondent

An African army that can quickly respond to crises on the continent is about to become a reality, 13 years after its conception.

From January 2016, the African Standby Force (ASF) will be able to intervene in cases of war crimes, genocide or crimes against humanity if an African Union member state requests assistance or if the AU itself considers the situation serious enough.

It will also be able to provide humanitarian assistance and undertake peacekeeping and observer missions, although any deployment would be subject to donor funding.

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has called for UN reform during a speech in India, saying African nations have been treated as "underdogs" and looked down on like "dwarfs" by the permanent members of the UN security council, the local Economic Times website reports, external. 

Mr Mugabe made the comments at the India-Africa Forum Summit, which more than 50 African leaders are attending in the capital New Delhi. 

Image source, AP

Read the full BBC story on the summit

There's debate among teachers, students and parents in Ghana at the moment about what language to teach children in. 

Ghana's Education Minister Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang wants children there to be taught in local languages - that is to say their mother tongue - rather than English, which is the national language.

She says children find it difficult to progress in school because they are taught in a language that they cannot relate to. At the moment it's just a proposal, but what do Ghanaian teachers think about the idea?

Junior high school teacher John Djiedjorm has been sharing his views with BBC Newsday: 

The BBC's Robert Kiptoo is outside the headquarters of Tanzania's ruling CCM party and has been filming party supporters celebrating the victory of their candidate in Sunday's presidential election:

January Makamba, Tanzania's deputy minister of communication, has been tweeting about the ruling CCM party's victory in the presidential poll:

Tanzania's ruling CCM party has been tweeting following the victory of its candidate John Magufuli with 58% of the vote, according to official results:

A BBC reporter in Dar es Salaam has seen police and security vehicles near the offices of the main opposition coalition:

It's just been announced that the ruling party candidate John Magufuli won Sunday's presidential election.

The main opposition candidate Edward Lowassa earlier announced that he had won.

The conflict in the Central African Republic has seen about a quarter of the country's population of 4.6 million displaced from their homes since the violence erupted in 2013. 

But a recent outbreak of trouble in the capital, Bangui, has caused a further 40,000 people to flee their homes.

Julian Keane, from the BBC's Newsday programme is in Bangui, and has been visiting the Ben-Zvi refugee camp to find out how people are surviving day-to-day.

The UN Food Food and Agriculture Organization has been tweeting about the extent of the food security crisis in South Sudan, amid the ongoing civil war. 

Unity State, seen in red in the map below, has been classified as Phase 4 on its food insecurity scale, one level below famine, which is Phase 5:

African presidents have been tweeting from the India-Africa summit where India has pledged $600m (£393m) in aid and $10.6bn in cheap loans to the continent.

Uganda's president says that India and Africa can support each other:

The spokesperson of Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has tweeted pictures of the president clearly enjoying the get-together: