Is Japan's Emperor Akihito Going To Step Down?

Japan's Emperor Akihito is to broadcast a rare address to the nation in which he's expected to outline why he believes he should not remain in office.

Kenya's sports minister questions the timing of the release of a secretly-filmed video that appears to implicate the country's athletics team manager in a doping scandal.

A US-based Ethiopian journalist speaks of the increasingly violent ethnic unrest in his country.