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Every Easter, Ghana's "masquerade clubs" hold technicoloured parades in cities across the country. Journalist Suzanne Vanhooymissen attended this year's celebration in Sekondi.

Islamic militants from Boko Haram pushed back from the territory they were holding in North East Nigeria are targeting neighbouring countries.

In a bid to attract more visitors and investors, Mauritius has turned to medicine.

Divisions over race, language and identity shows how many black people still feel marginalised at universities in South Africa, as Karen Allen reports.

Escaping Boko Haram

Comedian Eddie Izzard has completed his challenge in South Africa to run 27 marathons in 27 days for Sport Relief.

Martin Jol guides Al Ahly into the last-16 of the African Champions League as fellow Egyptians Zamalek also win.

Leicester go eight points clear at the top of the Premier League after a goal from Algeria's Riyad Mahrez sees off Crystal Palace.

DJ's top tips for the continent's best releases

The wealthy South African family accused of wielding undue influence through links to President Zuma says it has been the victim of "xenophobic and hate speech".

Oscar Pistorius is targeted by a conman offering to repeal his murder conviction in return for money.

Rival Islamist militant groups al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and Boko Haram stage separate attacks in Niger, killing four members of the security forces, officials say.

Blissed out in Cairo and solidarity in the sand

A 63-year-old Kenyan man is hospitalised after he was attacked by a lion wandering along a busy road in the capital, Nairobi.

Can South Africa's president survive anger over influence peddling?

Niger opposition leader in France for election run-off

A gas facility jointly run by Norway's Statoil and BP comes under rocket attack but no one is hurt, officials say.

The BBC went along to the annual Design Indaba festival in Cape Town, South Africa.

The Tunisian women bringing their babies up on the inside

Guinea confirms two new Ebola cases, almost three months after it celebrated the end of the outbreak.