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The ambitious new plan to overhaul Sierra Leone's agriculture sector.

The ambitious new plan to overhaul Sierra Leone's agriculture sector, by growing and milling rice.

The sacked vice-president of South Sudan leaves the country, weeks after deadly clashes between his troops and government forces in the capital.

A Senegalese court fines a woman $250 for paying a bribe to a policeman, despite the fact she filmed him demanding the money and eating the ticket.

Nurse Pauline Cafferkey faces disciplinary action over claims she concealed her temperature at an Ebola screening at Heathrow Airport.

Senegal is cracking down on the Koranic schools that send children out to beg, but it is not clear if they will be able to stop the practice, writes Maud Jullien.

A terror suspect has been shot dead in Rwanda after a three-hour shoot-out in an affluent suburb of the capital, Kigali, police say.

South Africa's radical EFF says it will vote with the opposition DA in its bid to take control of key cities, bur rules out a formal coalition.

West Africa's breakdancing champion Yaya Footworker explains his mindset before he goes into battle.

Kenya's Conseslus Kipruto cruises to victory in the final of the men's 3,000m steeplechase, setting a new Olympic record and showboating his way to the gold medal.

An artist is using art to rejuvenate the slum community where he grew up in Ghana's capital, Accra.

The first Nigerian schoolgirl from Chibok to be rescued from Boko Haram says she misses the father of her baby, who is a suspected Islamist militant.

Night weddings are banned in Kenya's coastal region of Mombasa as the authorities say they have become a target for criminals.

In our series of letters by African journalists, Nigerian novelist and writer Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani looks a mother’s desperate battle to recover her kidnapped toddler.

How a simple post on social media ended a Russian woman's 40-year search for her father.

A university in north-eastern Nigeria is running projects to feed displaced people and prevent extremism.

South Africans on social media rally round Caster Semenya following eligibility criticism from US media.

Madagascar's conservationists work in secrecy to protect one of the world's most beautiful tortoises from poachers, writes journalist Martin Vogl.

A mother whose daughter escaped from the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram tells the BBC what life was like for her daughter.

Egyptian judoka Islam El Shehaby is sent home after he refused to shake the hand of Israeli opponent Or Sasson at the end of their bout.