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The breakdown of Uganda's main radiotherapy machine continues to affect many of the country's cancer patients.

Meet Fama Ka, the visually impaired woman who runs free braille classes to teach blind people in her neighbourhood how to read.

An official body in South Africa rules that university bursaries offered to proven female virgins are unlawful and should be scrapped.

UN health experts recommend cutting the standard dose of yellow fever vaccine by 80% in emergencies, amid an outbreak in Angola and DR Congo.

Three Nigerian politicians threaten to sue the US embassy over accusations that they groped a hotel worker and tried to solicit prostitutes.

Militant Islamists shoot dead at least 18 people at a funeral wake in north-eastern Nigeria, officials and witnesses says.

A selection of photos from across the African continent this week.

The BBC's Matthew Davies looks at the potential impact of the UK's EU referendum result on its trade with South Africa.

The flight data recorder from the EgyptAir plane that crashed in the Mediterranean Sea last month has been retrieved, Egyptian investigators say.

About 630,000 mobile phones have so far been disconnected in Tanzania following the ban on fake handsets came into force at midnight, the authority says.

Fighting for disability rights in Africa is a huge task but some are taking it upon themselves to make a positive change.

A Ugandan soldier kills seven people, including three children, in a shooting spree at a military police barracks in the capital, Kampala.

A court in Kenya dismisses a case brought by two men who were allegedly forced to undergo anal testing by police to prove they were homosexual.

Africa's best barista is about to take on all comers at the World Barista Championships in Dublin.

On 16 June 1976, thousands of students took to the streets of Soweto to protest against the apartheid regime - an uprising that changed South Africa. What has happened 40 years on?

Why have people been sharing a story about Garissa from 2015?

EU boats charged with seizing migrant-smuggling vessels in the Mediterranean will also be asked to stop vessels suspected of smuggling arms.

Oscar Pistorius' girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp did not love the South African Olympic athlete, her cousin Kim Martin tells his sentencing hearing.

Oscar Pistorius has removed his prosthetic legs in court to demonstrate how he walks without them.

Angola is an oil-rich nation, but cracks have begun to show in the economy. Karen Allen asks if the problems are exacerbated by the immense power and wealth of the ruling Dos Santos family.