Nigeria: Judicial Panel of Inquiry and Restitution has begun.

In the country's commercial capital, Lagos the panel has been hearing claims of human rights abuses by the Special Ant-Robbery Squad (SARS)

Zanzibar's main opposition party ACT Wazalendo say presidential candidate Maalim Seif Sharif Hamad has been arrested.

Voting has begun in a general elections in the semi-autonomous islands and mainland Tanzania.

And we hear about a new film by Nigerian director Damilola Orimogunje, which follows a woman's struggle with post-natal depression.

(Image: Demonstrators at recent #EndSARS protests, Credit: Getty Images)