A Nigerian actress has been sentenced to six months imprisonment for tampering with the currency after she was filmed spraying and stepping on newly issued naira notes last year.
South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma has been suspended from the party he once led, after refusing to vote for it and launching a rival organisation.
A controversial auction of about 70 personal items of South Africa's anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela - including his hearing aids, walking sticks, and reading glasses - has been suspended.
Pope Francis in an interview published on Monday said that Africans are a “special case” in the opposition of bishops and many other people in the continent to homosexuality.
Former United States President Donald Trump has been ordered to pay $83.3m to a writer he is accused of defaming after denying her claims of sexual assault.
