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Claims about poverty, unemployment and insecurity feature prominently in this election campaign.

Ghana is seeking a $3bn loan from the IMF but the president is pushing ahead with a huge new cathedral.

President Buhari vowed to defeat Boko Haram when elected in 2015. Is north-east Nigeria safe now?

AKA was gunned down outside a restaurant in Durban in what police suspect was a targeted killing.

Opposition parties and the US criticise the 10-day naval drills during the conflict in Ukraine.

A fallout between the Orthodox Church and a splinter group of clerics is inflaming tensions.

Ahead of the 2023 elections, Nigeria is facing issues ranging from insecurity, unemployment and a stalling economy.

Will the state of disaster help the government deal with the unprecedented power-cuts?

Other branches of early humans, not just ancestors of Homo Sapiens, used them to cut and crush food.

Ghanaian international Priscilla Okyere describes the moments her women's team escaped the devastating earthquake in Turkey.

Somali-born model Waris Dirie on convincing her mother to stop relatives undergoing the practice.

Amira Bouraoui, banned from leaving Algeria, makes it to France via Tunisia sparking a diplomatic row.

Kidnapping gangs have spread terror across Nigeria - how will this affect this month's elections?

A Somali survivor of the huge earthquake which struck southern Turkey says his family are being taken care of by locals.

A Togolese and Nigerian survivors say the situation, following the earthquake in Turkey, was apocalyptic.

Amid Russia's isolation, its friendship with Mali blossoms, but has it stopped jihadist violence?

Many Nigerians in the diaspora will not be voting in the elections as the country doesn't allow its citizens to vote from outside Nigeria.

The Ghanaian music genre was huge in the 90s, and its legacy lives on in Afrobeats.

BBC News Africa sat down with Ugandan artist Eddy Kenzo to talk about his Grammy nomination.

"When the spirit is with you, you do not get tired," says one South Sudanese woman after walking 300km.