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Donkeys without nappies are banned from entering a north-eastern Kenyan town to protect its first tarmac road from faeces.

Some Zambian artists are hopeful there are signs the country's creative industry is beginning to flourish.

Despite the unfavourable economic environment, some businesses in Zambia are managing to thrive.

One of the survivors of a Mediterranean migrant capsize caught on film has told the BBC that he thought he was going to die.

A Cameroonian inventor wins a £25,00 ($37,000) innovation prize for creating a monitor that can diagnose heart conditions in remote areas.

The UK is set to send a Royal Navy warship to the Mediterranean to help tackle arms smuggling in Libya, Prime Minister David Cameron announces.

India's foreign ministry says it is looking into an alleged attack on a Nigerian student by a local man in the southern city of Hyderabad.

Experts following the MH370 search say it is likely a new piece of debris found by a BBC reader in Mozambique came from the missing plane.

Kenya's parliament approves changes to anti-doping legislation in the hope of avoiding a ban on its athletes attending the Olympic Games in Rio.

And other ways Nigeria has changed under new president

Hundreds of people gather in Cairo for a candlelit vigil for the victims of last week's EgyptAir crash.

Up to 30 migrants are feared dead after a boat capsizes off the Libyan coast as the full horror of a similar shipwreck a day earlier emerges.

South Africa's parliament approves a bill allowing the government to expropriate land in the public interest.

The mastermind of the 2010 bomb attacks in Uganda's capital, Kampala, which killed 74 people as they were watching the World Cup final, is found guilty.

Rescued migrants have arrived in Sicily after the boat they were in capsized on Wednesday.

Ted Dumitru, who coached four African nations and some of South Africa's top clubs, passes away at the age of 76.

A Nigerian baby girl who survived a shipwreck in the Mediterranean goes to a foster family in Sicily, after touching Italian hearts.

Zamalek will now complete their Egyptian Premier League season, having said on Wednesday they were withdrawing over "disastrous refereeing errors".

South Africans are wondering how serious President Jacob Zuma is about austerity after it emerged this week that the state had spent about 8.6m rand ($550,000; £374,000) on new cars for his wives over the past three years, writes the BBC's Milton Nkosi.

A couple of campers describe the moment three lions explored their campsite and licked their tent.