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With the ferry carrying hundreds of people on board, it is feared the death toll will rise.

Bobi Wine is back in Uganda after medical treatment in the US following his alleged assault by soldiers.

Bobi Wine says he will keep fighting for freedom after returning to Uganda.

Being pregnant at 13 is common in the floating slums of Makoko but John Mary has always been determined not to follow that route.

A South African man is charged after his racist tirade against President Ramaphosa caused outrage.

The nine-year-old Somali girl died after soldiers fired shots to clear a traffic jam in Mogadishu.

The Spanish foreign minister says he disagreed with the idea, put to him during a visit to the US.

Fifa warns Sierra Leone it risks an international ban following the Anti-Corruption Commission's decision to overturn the leadership of the football association.

Amaju Pinnick becomes the first man to win a second straight term as president of the Nigeria Football Federation beating three other candidates.

Nigeria suspends plans to relaunch its national airline two months after announcing it would be revived.

Former internationals Pierre Francois Aubameyang and Daniel Cousin take over as joint coaches of Gabon after Jose Antonio Camacho's contract was not renewed.

Kenya move up the latest Fifa world rankings thanks to their 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying win over Ghana, who fall six places.

Why some earth tremors in Nigerian's capital, Abuja, have caused such a stir.

Visual artist Osborne Macharia wants the cultural movement to revolutionise the perception of Africa.

Whistle-blowers tell the BBC how bribery impacts on all levels of football in Algeria.

Recent data shows that the national murder rate in South Africa is going up.

Amidst a collapse in public services, water supplies have become contaminated with untreated sewage.

Nigerian tech entrepreneur Oscar Ekponimo has invented an app which will help cut down on food waste.

The death of three firemen reveals a reckless attitude to health and safety, many South Africans feel.

Young girls are sold to men as old as 90 in the custom still practised in Nigeria's Becheve community.