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A teller at Somalia's central bank is on the run after allegedly stealing $530,000, exchanging the notes for fakes, the bank's governor says.

The largest town that Boko Haram ever controlled still lies in ruins, frozen in time nearly 18 months after Nigeria's military recaptured it, writes the BBC's Martin Patience.

West Ham boss Slaven Bilic is "interested" in Manchester City's Wilfried Bony after missing out on AC Milan's Carlos Bacca.

South Africa's finance minister has said he will not appear before the police despite a request to do so.

Moroccan side Wydad Casablanca earn the draw they need in Zambia against Zesco United to finish top of Group A in the African Champions League.

Satirist Ikenna Azuike is in Malawi to find out why the African country won no Olympic medals.

Young Johannesburg voters tell the BBC why talk of apartheid is no longer such a big factor in South African politics.

Nine Nigerian banks are suspended from foreign currency trading for not paying a total of $2bn owed to the government, a central bank source tells the BBC.

Veteran South African medallist Elana Meyer tells the BBC South Africa’s Olympic success in Rio is ushering in a new era on the track.

The latest release of previously secret Foreign Office papers from the 1980s reveals a humorous footnote to the British government's ambivalent attitude towards Nelson Mandela.

A campaign to fast-track British citizenship for South African runner Zola Budd triggered a major government rift in the mid-1980s, newly released documents show.

In our series of letters from African journalists, Ghanaian writer Elizabeth Ohene ponders whether it matters that Olympians have switched nationalities.

The world's newest gold rush is under way in the West African country of Mauritania as thousands rush into the Sahara hoping to strike it rich.

A Nigerian man facing charges of breaching the peace after he named his dog after President Muhammadu Buhari says it was meant as a compliment.

Riek Machar, who was sacked as South Sudan's vice-president last month, is in Sudan to receive "urgent medical attention", state media report.

A strike called by the opposition in DR Congo to demand that the president steps down when his term ends cripples businesses in the capital.

The BBC's Piers Edwards picks out 10 moments we will not forget from what has been a memorable Olympics for Africa.

Photographer Mahesh Shantaram documents the lives of Africans living in India.

Three-quarters of young people in Senegal want to emigrate - even though the journey to Europe could cost them their lives.

Nigeria's Olympic rower Chierika Ukogu has an inspirational story - but without the mistaken promotion of US rapper Snoop Dogg, she is likely to have sunk without trace.