Uganda's Constitutional Court has upheld the country's controversial anti-homosexuality law, which imposes life imprisonment and the death penalty on those involved in certain same-sex acts.
Former President Jacob Zuma has filed an appeal against South Africa's electoral commission, which last week barred him from standing in forthcoming elections.
The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Félix Tshisekedi, has appointed a former minister as the country's first-ever female prime minister.
A French court on Wednesday handed former Liberian rebel commander Kunti Kamara a 30-year prison sentence for violence against civilians and complicity in crimes against humanity during Liberia's first civil war.
The son of Guinea-Bissau's ex-president has been sentenced to over six years in prison by a US court for leading an international heroin trafficking ring.
