Africa Today

Near simultaneous car bombs at a busy intersection in Mogadishu - and a third slightly later - kills dozens of people. Plus: As the DRC gears up for elections, we take a closer look at peacekeeping in the face of the ebola outbreak there. Also: We hear from the Ethiopian activist and politician Birtukan Medekse, once exiled, now back home.

The AU welcomes the release of the children kidnapped in Cameroon. But what else is the organisation doing? Plus: Nordic countries want in on the deal to be made in Africa. Also: the inspiration behind the Princess Arabella stories for children who are not necessarily white.

Most students kidnapped from a boarding school in Cameroon have been freed, officials say. People in Madagascar vote in an election that sees the incumbent president battling against two of his predecessors. Ten men have been arrested on suspicion of being gay on the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar. And the return of the famous Dur Dur band from Somalia.

Cameroon’s President Paul Biya calls for a public holiday on the day he is sworn in for a seventh term in office, but the opposition refuses to concede victory. The ceremony happens a day after 79 school children, their principal and two other staff members are abducted from a school in the English speaking region of the country. We hear first-hand accounts of parents of the victims + According to the International Monetary Fund 40 per cent of low-income sub-Saharan countries are now at risk of debt distress. Is debt relief even possible? We ask Liberia's former Finance Minister, Dr Antoinette Monsio Sayeh

We speak to experts from Nigeria and Kenya about how technology is changing the reporting and consumption of news. On the day when the BBC inaugurates its largest newsroom outside of the UK, we take a glance in the future of news.