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The app for a country with few street addresses

Isha Johansen, president of the Sierra Leone Football Association, offers the business advice she wishes she had had when she started out, as part of the BBC News series, CEO Secrets.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visits a drought-hit region of Ethiopia to help raise awareness of the worsening hunger crisis.

Tanzanian police arrest three suspects over the death of a British helicopter pilot whose aircraft was shot at by elephant poachers.

Guinea keeper Abdoulaziz Keita saves and scores in the penalty shootout win over Zambia in the quarter-finals of CHAN.

The African Union has abandoned its plan to send 5,000 peacekeepers to help restore stability to troubled Burundi, saying it will encourage dialogue instead.

At least 50 people are reported killed in north-eastern Nigeria in a gun and bomb attack by suspected Boko Haram militants.

Mali come from a goal down to beat Tunisia 2-1 in the quarter-finals of the African Nations Championship in Rwanda.

The UN reveals the nationalities of peacekeepers accused of sexually abusing children in the Central African Republic.

The lie about enforced polygamy goes international

A rights group says it has found possible mass graves in Burundi's capital, where security forces are accused of killing scores of people in December.

Playing the African djembe drum is growing in popularity outside of its native continent.

The growing trend for African overseas students to utilise their acquired skills in their home countries.

A judge on one of South Africa's biggest TV talent shows, sacked in a row over racism, is to be reinstated after a court ruled in his favour.

Why the country where Zika was discovered is hardly affected

Daily bread, puppet power and painful protests

The UN says it has new allegations of child sex abuse by European troops in the Central African Republic (CAR).

The Zika virus, which is said to be spreading "explosively", was forest discovered in a forest in Uganda.

An Oxford University college decides to retain a statue of 19th Century British imperialist Cecil Rhodes, in the face of a campaign calling for its removal.

Can South Africa still blame its poor schools on apartheid?