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Nine-year-old chef Sammy started cooking two years ago and now works with local orphanages in Lagos.

It is a topic shrouded in shame, but traction alopecia may affect one-third of women of African descent.

With few street names in The Gambia, people have to get creative about giving directions.

A festival celebrating this year’s planting season brings together thousands of people in Nigeria.

A selection of photos from across Africa and Africans elsewhere this week.

Sudanese protest groups require unity to secure civilian rule, the BBC's Alastair Leithead says.

A child known as Baby A became the subject of a high court case that has prompted Kenya to start changing its approach to intersex children.

Automation could wipe out many jobs in developing countries, says globalisation expert Ian Goldin.

Online groups are targeting and killing young men in Kenya they believe to be gang members.

A photographer breaks stereotypes in Senegal to show that men can be seen in public caring for their children.

On the fifth anniversary of the schoolgirls' kidnapping, more than 100 are still missing.

Photographer Sanlé Sory spent 25 years documenting night life in the West African country of Burkina Faso.

Capturing the defiant and growing crowds outside the army headquarters in Sudan's capital.

Yaya Toure says Leonardo Bonucci's suggestion that Juventus team-mate Moise Kean was partly to blame for the racist abuse he received is "unbelievable".

Sara is born amid Cyclone Idai flooding, 20 years after a similar birth during floods in the country.

A woman kidnapped from West Africa by slave traders lived until 1937 in Alabama, researchers say.

The captain of the Ghana's national women's side, Elizabeth Addo, says she is 'excited' about joining Chinese Super League team, Jiangsu Suning.

Jordan Kinyera goes through 18 years of education, becomes a lawyer and wins his father's court case.

Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 82, makes a rare appearance on state TV to hand in his resignation.

Celebrations filled the streets in Algiers after President Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced his resignation