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The disputed Western Sahara is a popular kitesurfing destination, even though conflict could resume.

More than 20 Chibok girls freed in Nigeria by Boko Haram reunite with their families for Christmas.

Nigeria's army drives Boko Haram from their last camp in the Sambisa forest, the president says.

Nigerian novelist and writer Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani picks out some of 2016's quirkier stories.

Perfume maker Agata Karolina tells the BBC about the business of making scents from scratch.

Filming of a plane hijacking movie at Malta airport is halted amid the real hijacking of a Libyan Airbus A320.

Footage shows a man being arrested after the Libya Malta hijack. He acted with another man who was also arrested.

Event company owner Ibidunni Ighodalo talks to the BBC about her wedding business.

A selection of the best photos from across Africa this week.

Senegal is the highest ranked football team in Africa and one reason is local academies such as Generation Foot.

Photographer Boukary Konate is documenting scenes from rural life in his native Mali for the "internet generation", and before this way of life disappears entirely.

Kenyan businessmen are tapping into the honey industry with the introduction of modern methods, which local farmers say present a shift away from long-held tradition, writes the BBC's Nicola Kelly.

Kenyan girls are hiding in schools this Christmas to escape parents who want them to undergo FGM.

How a meeting between two of the BBC's 100 Women of 2013 led to an English girl's school reopening in a Kenyan slum

Rana Jawad examines why Libya is still fractured and threatened by Islamic State one year after a political deal for a unity government

Cameroonians have launched a technological campaign to end road accidents by using mobile apps, writes Chris Matthews.

The BBC's Stephanie Hegarty explains how a Ponzi scheme caught on like wildfire in Nigeria.

For three years South Sudan has tumbled deeper into self-inflicted chaos, and it now finds itself on the brink of something even more terrifying, writes the BBC's Alastair Leithead.

Gambia's President-elect tells the BBC he will declare himself president on 18 January.

Traces of explosives were found on victims of an EgyptAir crash in May, investigators say.