Nigeria imports about $3 billion worth of food annually and has been trying to boost its self-sufficiency.
A priest accused of genocide and crimes against humanity during the 1994 Rwandan genocide has been acquitted.
Up to 750,000 Kenyans could be caught up in flooding from heavy rains expected to peak in November.
Zimbabwe's government has proposed that Zimbabweans take 51 percent ownership of all foreign companies in the country.
Somali pirates seized a Greek-owned vessel full of wheat in the Indian Ocean on Thursday.
Regional leaders hold a summit in Mozambique on Thursday hoping to prevent the collapse of Zimbabwe's unity government.
African nations agreed on Tuesday to resume work on a new U.N. climate pact after a day-long boycott.
Somali al Shabaab insurgents closed three women's organisations in the rebel-held town of Balad Hawa.
U.N. Sec-Gen. Ban Ki-moon has launched an inquiry into a bloody crackdown on protesters in Guinea.
Armed villagers killed at least 47 policemen trying to intervene in ethnic clashes in northern Democratic Republic of Congo