•Voting ends in Ghana’s Akwatia Parliamentary by-election, counting gets underway after tensed electoral process and vote buying.

4th Africa Food Systems Forum enters day-two in Dakar with commitments to strengthen food security across the continent

•Burkina Faso’s transitional government criminalizes homosexuality; Punishable by imprisonment

•One month on: Supporters of detained ex-Malian PM Moussa Mara await trial amid rising concerns over political repression