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Somalia's landscape is littered with dead animals and there are warnings of a full-blown famine.

Florentin Pogba says his mother will find it difficult to watch the Guinea international face younger brother Paul in the Europa League on Thursday.

Are African media dealing with fake news effectively?

After several delays, an election was planned before the end of 2017, but finances put that in doubt.

Victoria Emah-Emah runs a charity which helps Nigerian children whose parents died from HIV/Aids.

BBC seeks future star of African journalism for the BBC World News Komla Dumor Award 2017.

Exiled Ethiopian Olympic protest runner sees his family for the first time in at least six months.

Former Sunderland striker Asamoah Gyan is one of more than 40 players deemed to have "unethical hair" in the United Arab Emirates.

BBC seeks future star of African journalism for the BBC World News Komla Dumor Award 2017.

A change of attitude towards peace missions under President Trump could spell disaster for places like CAR.

Many people in Nigeria turn to traditional medicine for their dental care.

Fergal Keane visits the town of Bambari in the Central African Republic, where UN peacekeepers are literally keeping the two sides apart.

A new hungry caterpillar is threatening African crops already badly hit by record droughts.

In our series of letters from African journalists, Sudanese columnist Yousra Elbagir explains what it is like to live in a country subject to US sanctions.

How mobile technology is profoundly changing access to money in the developing world.

The silent deaths of 94 mentally ill patients in South Africa is symptomatic of their place in society, but their families want explanations, writes the BBC's Pumza Fihlani.

Why delays and chaos means air travel in Nigeria is often grounded.

Seventeen are killed in a stampede at a football stadium in northern Angola, local officials say.

A Tanzanian tourist guide is arrested for his 'fake translation' of a woman's innocent compliment.

Ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor is serving a 50-year sentence in the UK for crimes against humanity.