They've announced the 2013 Caine Prize judging panel -- and, at the same time, also revealed that:
This year 96 qualifying stories have been submitted to the judges from 16 African countries.While restricted to stories (of between ca. 3000 and 10,000 words) published in English, they do accept stories in translation -- and so it's a bit disappointing that there were only entries from 16 countries (I remind you that Wikipedia reports there are "54 fully recognized sovereign states ("countries")" in Africa ...).