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Not just Mandela - other ways the CIA has meddled in Africa

Thomas Naadi meets a Syrian family who migrated to Ghana in 2011 after a trafficker they paid to take them to Europe disappeared with their money.

Face to face with a man who would have sacrificed me

A new report says Nelson Mandela's arrest in 1962 came as a result of a tip-off from an agent of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

One of the best countries in the world to seek help

How Rwanda is becoming a magnet for high-tech investment.

In our series of letters from African journalists, Joseph Warungu considers what the collapse of a building in Nairobi reveals about Kenyan society.

In our series of letters from African journalists, Mannir Dan Ali, considers the hard task of rebuilding lives now that the worst of the Boko Haram insurgency seems to be over.

Egypt's journalists' union demands the dismissal of the interior minister after two journalists were arrested at its headquarters in Cairo overnight.

The owner of a six-storey building which collapsed in Kenya's capital, killing at least 21 people, has been arrested, police tell the BBC.

Thousands of people attend the first day of official commemorations in DR Congo to mark the sudden death of music star Papa Wemba.

Southampton boss Ronald Koeman wants Senegalese striker Sadio Mane to replicate the form that brought him a hat-trick on Sunday.

A British Army team arrives in Somalia as part of a United Nations mission to counter Islamist militants.

Senegal's Sadio Mane scores a hat-trick for Southampton in a win that threatens Manchester City's Champions League qualification hopes.

Lions rescued from circuses in Colombia and Peru have been released at Emoya Big Cat Sanctuary in South Africa.

A mosque under refurbishment collapses during Friday prayers in the Somali capital Mogadishu, killing at least 15 people and injuring 40.

The Instagram account poking fun at "orphanage chic"

More than 30 lions rescued from circuses in Colombia and Peru are flown to a sanctuary in South Africa - in what is said to be the largest such airlift.

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta sets fire to a huge stockpile of ivory in an effort to show his country's commitment to saving Africa's elephants, but the move has its critics.

A six-storey building collapses in Nairobi in Kenya, after heavy rains and flooding across the country.