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Rescued migrants have arrived in Sicily after the boat they were in capsized on Wednesday.

Ted Dumitru, who coached four African nations and some of South Africa's top clubs, passes away at the age of 76.

A Nigerian baby girl who survived a shipwreck in the Mediterranean goes to a foster family in Sicily, after touching Italian hearts.

Zamalek will now complete their Egyptian Premier League season, having said on Wednesday they were withdrawing over "disastrous refereeing errors".

South Africans are wondering how serious President Jacob Zuma is about austerity after it emerged this week that the state had spent about 8.6m rand ($550,000; £374,000) on new cars for his wives over the past three years, writes the BBC's Milton Nkosi.

A couple of campers describe the moment three lions explored their campsite and licked their tent.

Ethiopia's rescue mission after cross-border kidnapping

Tanzania is facing a sugar shortage, despite being a relatively large-scale producer of the commodity.

Spain sends sympathies to Nigeria over tomato 'emergency'

The barbers of Freetown in Sierra Leone

Graduates' fruitless search for employment

How Israel flew 14,000 people to safety in two days

Shea butter is made by women across sub-Saharan Africa's rural Sahel regions, including parts of Ghana.

The women who make shea butter for beauty products

The east African country of Eritrea is celebrating 25 years since it became independent from Ethiopia and the milestone is being marked with street parades in the capital Asmara.

Eritrea celebrates independence war tactics 25 years on

Why 700 people drowned in one incident in the Mediterranean

The Nigerian military has announced that 97 women and children held by the Islamist group Boko Haram have been rescued.

Debris from the missing EgyptAir flight has been found floating in the Mediterranean, Greek and Egyptian officials say.

Three people die in a "terrorist-style attack" on a mosque in Tanzania during evening prayers, police say, amid fears of a growing threat from militant Islam.