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From crowdsourcing to TV debates in Uganda's election

Battered but not beaten

Today is the last day of campaigning ahead of Uganda's election.

Uganda holds an election this Thursday and President Yoweri Museveni's 30 years in power is at stake.

Activists in Nigeria say they will continue their campaign to secure the safety of more than 200 schoolgirls who were kidnapped by the militant Islamist group, Boko Haram.

A fall in the demand for copper is threatening to impact on the economy of mining towns in northern Zambia.

A band from a prison in Malawi has been nominated for a Grammy award in this year's World Music category.

Islamist militant group al-Shabab retakes Somalia's port city of Merca according to residents, while the African Union forces insist they still have control of the town

Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara says he will not send any more Ivorians to the International Criminal Court, where his political rival is facing charges of crimes against humanity.

South African Tokyo Sexwale fails to win the support of the Confederation of Africa Football for his bid to become Fifa president.

A major rescue operation is under way after a building collapsed at the surface of a gold mine in South Africa, blocking off the main entrance.

Carnival preparations, body building and balloons on sale

Ajax Cape Town withdraw from the Confederation Cup because of concerns over how they will travel to face their Angolan opponents.

How an urban train network is expanding in the South African city of Johannesburg.

Companies in the Democratic Republic of Congo are getting angry about bureaucracy.

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has declared a state of disaster in most rural parts of the country severely hit by a drought.

Ethiopia is suffering its worst drought in decades with failed crops, livestock at risk and more than 10 million people needing emergency aid.

But does it need international aid?

The woman who turned up to surprise her would-be killer

More than 100 UN peacekeepers will be sent home from the Central African Republic after accusations of child sexual abuse, the UN says.