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After Ghana's president John Mahama quoted lines from Michael Jackson's Heal the World at the UN, here are five more politicians who used their favourite lyric to make a point.

Kenyan Harrison Menza takes things like discarded whisky bottles and coconut shells and makes items that can be used again and again.

Some academics in Ghana have started a petition to take down a statue of ‘racist’ Gandhi.

As the security situation in DR Congo appears to be deteriorating, the BBC looks at the reasons behind the protests against President Kabila's rule.

In our series of letters from African journalists, Ghanaian writer Elizabeth Ohene considers the gap between Paralympic wonder and the reality for wheelchair users in Ghana.

The 193 countries of the United Nations are to sign a landmark declaration to rid the world of drug-resistant infections or superbugs.

The Senegalese wrestlers bringing the art of sumo from Japan to West Africa.

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola says he will not pick Yaya Toure until his agent apologises for making critical comments.

Nearly five million people in Somalia are without enough food due to poor rainfall, flash floods and internal displacement.

South African Paralympic shot-putter Tyrone Pillay says South African Airways refused to allow his prosthetic leg on board as he returned from Brazil.

A teacher in Algeria, where most people speak French, is disciplined after leading her class in a celebration of Arabic at the start of the new school year.

Botswana is to deport controversial US pastor Steven Anderson after he said on a local radio that homosexuals should be "stoned to death".

Tanzania beat Kenya 2-1 to win the 2016 Cecafa Women's Championship in Uganda.

South African police fire stun grenades and arrest 31 students in Johannesburg as protests hit universities over an increase in tuition fees.

The headquarters of three opposition parties in DR Congo are torched and two people are burnt to death in the capital amid electoral tension.

As Nigeria's Paralympians return from Rio victorious, BBC Sport's Oluwashina Okeleji asks what the faltering national football team could learn from them.

Early diagnosis of disease is literally a matter of life and death, so the race is on to produce cheaper, faster, lighter kits to help doctors and nurses in the field.

The 10 remaining fluent speakers of the Kenyan language Yaaku are trying to make sure that it is not lost forever.

Nigerian novelist and writer Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani questions whether a South African school's hair rules really were racist or if something else was at play.

A few days ago on the way to the office, BBC Nigeria reporter Stephanie Hegarty grabbed breakfast at a new juice bar on the Lagos street where she lives. Three hours later, it was gone.