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Tunisian women are expected to be virgins when they marry, leading some to have hymen surgery.

He fought stigma and violence to become a gospel star in Kenya.

Engy El Shazly started learning ballet at 27 while wearing her Islamic headscarf.

Mariam Staford Bandaba was attacked in Tanzania by a gang of men who chopped off her arms, believing albino body parts had magic properties. She is now able to work as a weaver.

His neighbours, in what is probably the world's most famous slum, stare but he doesn't care.

Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey returns to Sierra Leone for the first time since contracting Ebola there.

A selection of the best photos from across Africa this week.

The all-female Facebook group Female In Nigeria became a place for women to share their deepest secrets.

Traffickers abandoned the migrants who were on the brink of death when troops found them, the army says.

A profile of Bosco Ntaganda, who is on trial at The Hague accused of carrying out war crimes in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Research in the US and Europe suggests that black sports people are more at risk of cardiac arrest.

A boy and a girl survive, but two deaths are confirmed after a building collapsed in Nairobi.

The suspension is for boycotting a speech by the president and comes amid criticism of the government.

Papiss Cisse leads the tributes at a memorial for former Newcastle team-mate Cheick Tiote, who died after collapsing in training in China.

Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani considers growing calls for changes in the way Nigeria is governed.

The BBC's Anne Soy reports from Nairobi, where a seven-storey building has collapsed.

One man who survived being shot nine times during the Marikana massacre relives that day.

Former South African striker Benni McCarthy is appointed the new head coach of Premier Soccer League club, Cape Town City.

The leader of South Africa's main opposition had said colonialism had some positive aspects.

People in South Africa's Western Cape province are dealing with the impact of wildfires in which seven people died.