AFP - Mozambique will reverse an increase in the price of bread that sparked deadly rioting last week, and restore some subsidies for electricity and water, the planning minister said Tuesday.

AFP - South Sudan?s parliament on Tuesday named as official leader of the opposition a member of the breakaway Sudan People?s Liberation Movement-Democratic Change, an offshoot from the ruling SPLM party.

AFP - Gabon President Ali Bongo during a visit here Tuesday slammed the UN for drafting a report on war crimes allegedly committed by Rwanda in DRCongo without first visiting or consulting Kigali.

AFP - Mozambique on Tuesday rolled back price increases for bread, water and electricity, hoping to soothe public outrage that erupted in three days of deadly rioting last week.

AFP - Mohamed ElBaradei, the former UN nuclear chief turned Egyptian reformer, has called for a boycott of upcoming elections and warned of civil disobedience if demands for political reform are not met, an independent daily reported on Tuesday.

AFP - Nigeria will hold its presidential ballot on January 22, officials said Tuesday, leaving little time to prepare in Africa's most populous nation, where elections have regularly been plagued by fraud.

AP - Gunmen launched a massive attack Tuesday night against a northern Nigerian prison holding suspected members of a radical Muslim sect, authorities said.

Reuters - Four Ugandan peacekeepers were killed in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Monday when al Shabaab Islamist rebels fired mortars at the presidential palace, an African Union spokesman said.

AFP - Four Ugandan soldiers with the African Union forces in Somalia were killed Monday when hardline insurgents fired a mortar shell at one of their bases, the force's spokesman said.

AFP - The West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) on Monday announced one billion CFA francs (1.52 million euros, 1.93 million dollars) in aid to help five member countries affected by floods.

AP - The government of Southern Sudan said Monday it will purge child soldiers from the ranks of its former rebel army by year's end, a policy change that could see thousands of young troops pushed out of the military.

AFP - South Sudan vowed on Monday to end its use of child soldiers by the end of the year, as the former rebel force works to transform itself into a regular army ahead of a 2011 independence referendum.

Reuters - A U.S. aid worker was released in Darfur on Monday after being held by her kidnappers for 105 days, the latest in a series of abductions of foreigners for ransom in Sudan's west.