BBC Africa

The booming kaftan industry is bringing financial independence to Moroccan women.

It has been an eventful year for democracy in Africa. The BBC's Dickens Olewe looks back at some of the elections and lesson learned.

A new study estimates there are just 7,100 now left in the wild as they face growing conflict with humans.

Suranga Lakmal's four wickets helps Sri Lanka restrict South Africa to 267-6 on the opening day of the first Test in Port Elizabeth.

Thirty people drown after a boat carrying a football team and fans capsizes in Uganda, police say.

In 2007 Tresor Riziki fled the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo in search of his musical dream. Today, he is an award winning musician based in Johannesburg.

The disputed Western Sahara is a popular kitesurfing destination, even though conflict could resume.

More than 20 Chibok girls freed in Nigeria by Boko Haram reunite with their families for Christmas.

Nigeria's army drives Boko Haram from their last camp in the Sambisa forest, the president says.

Nigerian novelist and writer Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani picks out some of 2016's quirkier stories.

Perfume maker Agata Karolina tells the BBC about the business of making scents from scratch.

Filming of a plane hijacking movie at Malta airport is halted amid the real hijacking of a Libyan Airbus A320.

Footage shows a man being arrested after the Libya Malta hijack. He acted with another man who was also arrested.

Event company owner Ibidunni Ighodalo talks to the BBC about her wedding business.

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

Senegal is the highest ranked football team in Africa and one reason is local academies such as Generation Foot.

Photographer Boukary Konate is documenting scenes from rural life in his native Mali for the "internet generation", and before this way of life disappears entirely.

Kenyan businessmen are tapping into the honey industry with the introduction of modern methods, which local farmers say present a shift away from long-held tradition, writes the BBC's Nicola Kelly.

Kenyan girls are hiding in schools this Christmas to escape parents who want them to undergo FGM.

How a meeting between two of the BBC's 100 Women of 2013 led to an English girl's school reopening in a Kenyan slum