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How one African shoemaker is feeling the benefit of the rising US dollar.

Somalia's media is now bound by a new law which could put many journalists out of a job

Anger over Tanzania demolitions to prevent flooding

Ethiopia's government is set to abandon plans to expand the boundaries of the capital, Addis Ababa, after months of deadly protests in the Oromo region.

Sierra Leone's President Ernest Bai Koroma would only stay on in office beyond 2018 if called to do so, the government spokesman tells the BBC.

South Africa Test captain AB de Villiers is "not sure" if he wants to remain in charge beyond the Test series against England.

Borussia Dortmund and Gabon striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang says he will not be leaving the club for Arsenal or Barcelona.

World football's governing body Fifa dismisses suspended secretary general Jerome Valcke.

The elephant population in Africa continues to decline, despite an international ban on the trade of ivory tusks.

The Somali boy creating battery-powered models from scrap

The crime that shocked a nation exposed as fake

The music craze with a dark side splitting opinion in Egypt

The South African artist Beezy Bailey has paid tribute to his friend David Bowie who died on Sunday at the age of 69.

More than half of children in South Sudan are not in school, the highest proportion in any country, UN children's agency Unicef says.

The Ethiopian government has been accused of stifling public dissent over the Oromo protests.

Tributes are being paid to the Somali composer, playwright, actor and poet Ali Sugule Egai, who has died at the age of 80.

Nigeria's 2016 budget documents have gone missing at the country's parliament, an MP who requested anonymity tells the BBC.

A court in Zimbabwe throws out a "criminal insult" charge brought against a ruling party MP accused of calling first lady Grace Mugabe a "fool".

Ghana's president strongly defends the government's decision to allow two Yemenis freed from Guantanamo Bay to live in the West African state.

Kenya's evangelical churches condemn government plans to make it tougher for religious bodies and clerics from all faiths to operate.