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Next week Ghana will vote in presidential and parliamentary elections and the economy is a key issue.

An Ethiopia opposition leader is arrested under the state of emergency after he returns from Europe.

If you like chocolate, Brexit and future trade negotiations should matter to you, writes BBC World News Komla Dumor Award winner Didi Akinyelure.

Cameroon players' union chief Geremi vows to address the lack of contract copies for local players in the country as uncovered by FIFPro.

In 1988 around 140 countries took part in the first World Aids Day to raise awareness of the epidemic

Palliative care nurse Lucy Finch talks about how witnessing an agonising death led her to set up Malawi's first hospice.

Gambian voters use marbles instead of ballot papers to vote in their presidential election in 1 December.

Large clinical trial for a vaccine to protect against HIV transmission is underway in South Africa.

Princess Kasune is one of Zambia's most outspoken Aids activists and was recently elected to become its first publicly known HIV-positive MP.

Suzy Eises is a saxophonist from Namibia who has shared the stage with South Africa’s Jimmy Dludlu and other African artists.

In our series of letters from African journalists, Nigerian novelist and writer Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani recalls how she was banned from speaking her mother tongue.

Rwanda opens an inquiry into 20 French officials it suspects of involvement in the 1994 genocide.

Gambian President Yahya Jammeh tells the BBC he will never pardon imprisoned opposition activists.

A regional king in Uganda is charged with murder after clashes which killed more than 80 people.

Some streets in Sudan's capital Khartoum have been empty as people protest about rising prices by staying at home. A school teacher sent the BBC this message.

A major survey into global football shows that African footballers are often subjected to abuse, poor pay and job insecurity.

Three female cartoonists from North Africa depict how the practice of male guardianship continues to affect women's lives in their countries.

Fidel Castro, who died on Friday, played a crucial role in shaping southern Africa, writes Richard Dowden.

At least 14 die in a battle between police and militia allegedly linked to a traditional king.

The revelation that a South African pastor has been spraying insecticide on his church members in a healing ritual has shocked many but he is not the only self-styled pastor in Africa to resort to highly questionable practices.