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Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh has rejected the result of the presidential election held earlier this month, a week after admitting defeat.

President Yahya Jammeh of The Gambia surprised the world earlier this month when he lost elections - the BBC's Umaru Fofana looks at the reasons behind his defeat.

It used to be a cultural taboo for a woman to ask for sexual gratification in Nigeria, but there's a mini-revolution going on the in bedroom, writes the BBC's Bola Mosuro.

Ghana's opposition leader Nana Akufo-Addo wins Wednesday's presidential election.

Cameroon's "protected" Penja pepper has helped to transform the region, economically.

A new three-word postal system is introduced in Ivory Coast, allowing the whole country to receive mail.

As Kenya prepares to export oil, the promise of petrodollars has generated high expectations.

A selection of the best photos from across Africa this week.

In our series of letters from African journalists, Mannir Dan Ali considers why the Nigerian president is finding it hard to please anyone.

Kenya's high court rules that a government directive to collect data about HIV children is unconstitutional.

Long queues in Ghana during elections to choose a new president, after candidates made a peace pledge.

A Kenyan rights group says police have killed more than 80 mainly Muslims in extrajudicial killings over four years.

An Egyptian woman, said to weigh 500kg, is to be airlifted to India for weight reduction surgery.

Voters in northern Ghana have a special way of reserving their place in polling station queues.

A correspondent working in South Sudan says he has been deported for being too critical of the government.

Nigeria's women's team insist they will not end their sit-in at a hotel in Abuja until they are paid outstanding bonuses of US$23,650 per player.

Research has cast doubt on a UN-backed project to reduce pollution-induced illness in the world's poorest children by providing 100 million homes with a smoke-free stove.

Residents of the Namibian town of Luderitz are at odds over whether they should scrap its German colonial name.

Research casts doubt on a global mission to use cleaner-burning stoves, to prevent pollution-induced illness in the world's poorest children.

The UN could launch a new inquiry into the 1961 air crash that killed then UN chief Dag Hammarskjold.