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In our series of letters from African journalists, Mannir Dan Ali considers why the Nigerian president is finding it hard to please anyone.

Kenya's high court rules that a government directive to collect data about HIV children is unconstitutional.

Long queues in Ghana during elections to choose a new president, after candidates made a peace pledge.

A Kenyan rights group says police have killed more than 80 mainly Muslims in extrajudicial killings over four years.

An Egyptian woman, said to weigh 500kg, is to be airlifted to India for weight reduction surgery.

Voters in northern Ghana have a special way of reserving their place in polling station queues.

A correspondent working in South Sudan says he has been deported for being too critical of the government.

Nigeria's women's team insist they will not end their sit-in at a hotel in Abuja until they are paid outstanding bonuses of US$23,650 per player.

Research has cast doubt on a UN-backed project to reduce pollution-induced illness in the world's poorest children by providing 100 million homes with a smoke-free stove.

Residents of the Namibian town of Luderitz are at odds over whether they should scrap its German colonial name.

Research casts doubt on a global mission to use cleaner-burning stoves, to prevent pollution-induced illness in the world's poorest children.

The UN could launch a new inquiry into the 1961 air crash that killed then UN chief Dag Hammarskjold.

Libyan forces hunt down the last IS fighters after ejecting them from their Sirte stronghold.

The brother of a patient in a Kenyan hospital tells the BBC's World Have Your Say he thinks the doctors' strike over pay is "inhumane".

British-Ghanaians explain what they want from the upcoming presidential election and what would convince them to return to Ghana.

The Ghana opposition leader hopes his industry vow will make the difference, writes Adelaide Arthur.

President Mahama is seeking re-election after serving a four-year first term plagued by power cuts.

Egypt arrests 25 people, including doctors and nurses, accused of illegal organ trafficking.

Kenyan officials have said nothing about the country's "largest military defeat" at a base in Somalia.

Abducted as a child by Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebel group, Dominic Ongwen became one of its most ruthless commanders, so should he face trial at the ICC?