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A rights group says it has found possible mass graves in Burundi's capital, where security forces are accused of killing scores of people in December.

Playing the African djembe drum is growing in popularity outside of its native continent.

The growing trend for African overseas students to utilise their acquired skills in their home countries.

A judge on one of South Africa's biggest TV talent shows, sacked in a row over racism, is to be reinstated after a court ruled in his favour.

Why the country where Zika was discovered is hardly affected

Daily bread, puppet power and painful protests

The UN says it has new allegations of child sex abuse by European troops in the Central African Republic (CAR).

The Zika virus, which is said to be spreading "explosively", was forest discovered in a forest in Uganda.

An Oxford University college decides to retain a statue of 19th Century British imperialist Cecil Rhodes, in the face of a campaign calling for its removal.

Can South Africa still blame its poor schools on apartheid?

Why Kenyans are tweeting the US attorney general

The trial of former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo for crimes against humanity has begun begin at the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Boko Haram-grade poison for the newest terrorists in town

In the Libyan port of Benghazi, a coalition led by the Libyan army is fighting on two fronts against the forces of so-called Islamic State and Islamist militias.

Security issues in Kenya and the region have had a serious impact on the country's tourism, BBC News looks at attempts to revive the industry.

The vicious world of Nigeria's sex-trafficking 'Air Lords'

Work of a Nigerian female chief on display

Grim question after Islamist attacks in Burkina Faso and Mali

An Amnesty report into child labour in cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo raises questions for electronic firms.

Morocco says it has arrested a Belgian national linked to the men who carried out the Paris attacks, in which 130 people died.