(Police in Kenya were on a high alert Monday following intelligence reports of planned terror attacks on main airports in Nairobi and Mombasa.)

(Student protests in South Africa are taking on an increasingly violent tone following clashes between black and white students at several universities this week. Academic activities are suspended indefinitely.)

[:en] (Uganda’s veteran President, Yoweri Museveni, secured another victory in the country’s general election. This was supposed to be the toughest challenge yet for Museveni and extends his 30-year rule for another five years, making him one of Africa’s longest-serving leaders.)

(Ugandans went to the polls on Thursday to choose presidential and parliamentary candidates in an election riddled with irregularities even before voting began.)

(The United Nations is investigating fresh allegations of sexual abuse in Central African Republic, where peacekeepers have been hit with numerous charges of sexual abuse over the past year, a U.N. spokesman said on Monday.)

(The Ugandan military said Thursday that a senior commander in warlord Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army had surrendered, a move analysts said showed disarray in rebel ranks and strengthened the possibility of Kony’s capture.)

(Des affrontements entre groupes armés dans l’est de la République démocratique du Congo ont causé la mort d’au moins 15 personnes dimanche. La région est le théâtre depuis plusieurs semaines de vives tensions ethniques.)

(A French general has defended France’s response to the 1994 Rwandan genocide, saying his troops did not give so much as a bullet to the perpetrators and did not immediately grasp the scale of the killing, sources say.)

(A survivor hidden in a tree says he watched Boko Haram extremists firebomb huts and heard the screams of children burning to death, among 86 people officials say died in the latest attack by Nigeria’s homegrown Islamic extremists.)

(Libya’s internationally recognised parliament on Monday voted to reject a UN-backed unity government, lawmakers said, in a major blow to international efforts to end the country’s unrest. )