Greste back home after Egypt jail

The parents of jailed Australian Al-Jazeera journalist Peter Greste make a direct appeal to Egypt's President Sisi for his release.

Australian al-Jazeera and ex-BBC journalist Peter Greste is deported from Egypt after 400 days in prison and is reportedly flying to Cyprus.

Three Al-Jazeera journalists accused by Egyptian prosecutors of links with the "terrorist" Muslim Brotherhood are remanded in custody for 15 days.

A judge in Cairo has upheld jail terms imposed on three activists who were prominent in the 2011 uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak.

An Egyptian court sentenced three Al-Jazeera reporters to three years in prison on Saturday, in a shock ruling following global demands for their acquittal.

>The ten terror suspects arrested in September last year from the Kampala suburbs have further been remanded to Luzira prison.

>The Luhizo family is all smiles these days. The old man, his wife and daughter are back home in Tanzania after years of living in war-torn Somalia. Sixty-two-year-old Muya Omari Luhizo, his wife Mesozi and daughter Fatuma, once classified as Somalis of Bantu origin, wore broad smiles last Friday shortly after they were granted Tanzanian citizenship at Chogo settlement, 12 kilometres off Dar es Salaam-Tanga road in Handeni District.

Egypt move up two places, going from 11th to ninth, in the list of African teams in Fifa's rankings for December.

Deported Somalis living in fear of al-Shabab reprisals