Uganda and Rwanda agree to end three-year dispute

Presidents Yoweri Museveni and Paul Kagame signed the deal in Angola in the presence of regional heads of state who acted as mediators, ending months of tensions that saw the two neighbours accusing each other actions aimed at destabilising peace in either country.

In Sudan the former leader of Sudan's Transitional Military Council Lt-Gen Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Burhan now sworn in as leader of the newly established sovereign council.

Officials in Ethiopia's capital are weighing bans on sex work and street begging, the latest in a series of measures intended to clean up the country's image. We hear more on this from the BBC’s Kalkidan Yibeltal.

And six months after being re-elected, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari swears in his new cabinet in Abuja. We hear from our correspondent Ishaq Khalid on how the inauguration went.

(Photo: Presidents Yoweri Museveni and Paul Kagame. Credit: GETTY)