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Burkina Faso has foiled a coup plot by forces loyal to ousted President Blaise Compaore and arrested at least 10 people, a minster says.

A German rescue organisation says four migrants have died and 25 others are missing after a boat was attacked by a speedboat labelled "Libyan coast guard".

Former Nigeria star Emmanuel Amuneke has high ambitions as coach but feels he has to leave his native country to achieve them

Tributes pour in for Kenya's afro-jazz star Achieng Abura after she dies of an undisclosed illness at a hospital in the capital, Nairobi.

South Africa formally begins the process of withdrawing from the International Criminal Court, saying it did not want to help achieve "regime change".

The world’s leading payment network Visa is launching its own mobile money platform in Kenya to compete with the successful M-Pesa service.

Mamelodi Sundowns take a 3-0 lead into the Champions League final second leg against Zamalek and are on the verge of a shock success.

Youngsters with albinism are stepping into the limelight, hoping to be named Kenya's first Mr and Miss Albino.

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.