Thousands gather to witness the disarmament of militant leader Government Tompolo.
Somali pirates boarded a Panama-flagged ship heading for Mogadishu and killed its Syrian captain.
Sierra Leone started the Bumbuna hydroelectric dam to power the country's main hospital, prison and government agencies.
Somali rebels hit the African Union's (AU) main base in Mogadishu on Thursday with two suicide car bombs.
Somali militia opposed praised a U.S. commando raid that killed one of the region's most wanted al Qaeda suspects.
Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, 28, was suspected of building the truck bomb that killed 15 people in Kenya in 2002.
Suspected foreign commandos in helicopters in Somalia killed one of the region's most wanted militants.
Influential rights group is concerned about police brutality used in response to rioting in Uganda's capital last week.
Violence in the Ugandan capital Kampala killed at least three people security forces clashed with rioters.
U.N. officials accused the Ugandan rebel Lord's Resistance Army of mounting a growing number of attacks in Sudan.