* The governor of Nigeria's south-eastern state of Anambra, Peter Obi, has been re-elected, the electoral commission has announced. The result was rejected by all other parties, who said their supporters were disenfranchised because their names did not appear on the electoral register. The Nigerian Government has admitted there were some irregularities during the election.
- BBC News

* Ivory Coast's electoral commission chief is refusing to resign over allegations that he added almost half a million fake names to voter rolls ahead of this year's presidential election. Robert Beugre Mambe says he did not commit fraud and assured voters that the computer systems used by election offices are tamper-proof. Government investigators last week accused him of padding electoral rolls in the West African country's rebel-controlled north.
- News24

* Amnesty International has urged Madagascar's authorities to launch a probe into 'the dozens of killings carried out by the security forces' during recent anti-government demonstrations. The rights group said the authorities must investigate the killings urgently, and that 'those presumed responsible should be brought to justice'.
- News24

* 'Former South African advocate Dirk Prinsloo has been sentenced to an effective 13 years in a maximum security jail by the Baranovichi High Court in Belarus. Judge Vasily Petriv found Prinsloo guilty of the theft of former girlfriend Svetlana Basalai's necklace, the robbery at the bank in Baranovichi on 10 June last year, and hooliganism for attacking a woman and 'violently breaking social order and being disrespectful to society' when he fled the bank.
- Cape Times (subscription needed)

* A key African human rights body has determined Kenya illegally evicted an indigenous population to make way for a wildlife reserve. Minority Rights Group says African leaders endorsed that decision during their three-day summit last week. The group said it was a landmark decision that sets a precedent for recognising the land rights of indigenous people in Africa.
- The Times

* Axed Armscor CEO Sipho Thomo is challenging his dismissal, said the chair of Parliament's Defence Committee. Mnyamezeli Booi announced to MPs that a planned briefing by Armscor chair Popo Molefe on the reasons for firing Thomo had been cancelled because he was challenging the board's decision to relieve him of his duties on 7 January.
- Mail & Guardian Online

* The widow of one of the Motherwell Four has denied writing to President Jacob Zuma urging him to pardon her husband's murderer, Eugene de Kock. Claims have been circulating that Doreen Mgoduka, widow of warrant officer Mbalala Mgoduka, along with Pearl Faku, who was married to Sergeant Temba Faku, has expressed her willingness to reconcile with De Kock.
- The Herald

* A man has been arrested for putting up posters championing gay rights, police said, adding they were searching for other Malawians they believe are working with foreigners in the campaign. There is debate over gay rights in this conservative country, sparked by the trial of a gay couple charged with unnatural acts and gross indecency, felonies for which they could be imprisoned for up to 14 years.
- IoL