BBC Africa

Oscar Pistorius is targeted by a conman offering to repeal his murder conviction in return for money.

Rival Islamist militant groups al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and Boko Haram stage separate attacks in Niger, killing four members of the security forces, officials say.

Blissed out in Cairo and solidarity in the sand

A 63-year-old Kenyan man is hospitalised after he was attacked by a lion wandering along a busy road in the capital, Nairobi.

Can South Africa's president survive anger over influence peddling?

Niger opposition leader in France for election run-off

A gas facility jointly run by Norway's Statoil and BP comes under rocket attack but no one is hurt, officials say.

The BBC went along to the annual Design Indaba festival in Cape Town, South Africa.

The Tunisian women bringing their babies up on the inside

Guinea confirms two new Ebola cases, almost three months after it celebrated the end of the outbreak.

How one of Africa's biggest solar farms could help South Africa solve its energy crisis.

The BBC has been given rare access to an all-women prison in Tunisia, where facilities are becoming increasingly over-crowded.

South Africa risks turning into a "mafia state", a senior governing party official has warned, as pressure grows on President Jacob Zuma over his links with a wealthy family.

After losing most of its territory in Nigeria, Islamist militant group Boko Haram has started to attack neighbouring Cameroon, killing hundreds of people. Maud Jullien went on patrol with the Cameroonian army.

Cameroon sentences 89 members of Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram to death in the first case since new anti-terror laws were passed, local media report.

There have been angry exchanges in South Africa's parliament over President Jacob Zuma's alleged links with a wealthy family.

Test your knowledge of the Africans in the Premier League

And how close are their links to President Jacob Zuma?

The BBC's Alastair Leithead joins rangers in Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) Garamba National Park as they hunt elephant poachers.

Health workers in Malawi are experimenting with using drones to get blood tests to hospital more quickly to speed up HIV diagnosis, which could save the lives of rural children.