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In our series of letters from African journalists, Ghanaian writer Elizabeth Ohene reflects on Muhammadu Buhari's recent comments about his wife and offers her view of what Nigeria's president got wrong.

The Gambia is known to tourists as "the smiling coast of West Africa", but this masks something more troubling, as Chris Simpson has been finding out.

The Ethiopian authorities have detained more than 1,600 people as they try to boost security under the state of emergency, a government minister tells the BBC.

Nollywood star Rita Dominic talks about her role as an army wife in Seventy-Six, a film about a failed coup.

When a 62-year-old Swedish woman was scammed into paying a 24-year-old Nigerian, she took an unexpected turn by going out and visiting him, writes Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani.

All of Ghana's five boxing world champions come from the Accra suburb of Bukom.

In the 1950s, Mau Mau troops in Kenya fought for independence from Britain. Gitu wa Kahengeri is a Mau Mau war veteran.

Somalis were promised that 2016 would see the country's first democratic poll in nearly 50 years, but the reality is much more complicated.

The white beaches of Zanzibar’s coast are home to the octopus hunters, in search of the delicacy.

Millions of children across Africa suffer from malnutrition - one way to tackle this is a special type of sweet potato that can deliver an extra vitamin hit which is being developed in Uganda, writes the BBC's Nancy Kacungira.

Reports re-emerge that Angola has become the first country in the world to ban Islam. Only they were never true in the first place, writes Clare Spencer.

Ethiopia's government has issued a list of the restrictions under the six-month state of emergency that was announced last week.

South African Neil Tovey, the only white man to captain an Africa Cup of Nations-winning team, is in a critical condition after a heart attack.

Zamalek coach Moemen Soliman insists his club can come back from three goals down against Mamelodi Sundowns in the second leg of the African Champions League.

Vets have worked to release a rhino in Lake Chivero Recreational Park of a rather unusual muzzle.

A US non-government organisation worker is reported to have been kidnapped in western Niger and taken towards the border with Mali.

Observers in Nigeria say it is unlikely that Boko Haram freed 21 of the Chibok schoolgirls while getting nothing in return, writes Martin Patience.

Countries meeting in Rwanda have agreed a "monumental" deal to phase out gases used in fridges that are worsening global warming.

In our series of letters from African journalists, Joseph Warungu, a former high-school teacher, examines the measures the Kenyan government has put in place to tackle cheating in national exams.

Nigeria's president responds to criticism of his government from his wife by saying she belongs in his kitchen, living room and "the other room".