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Ethiopia's rescue mission after cross-border kidnapping

Tanzania is facing a sugar shortage, despite being a relatively large-scale producer of the commodity.

Spain sends sympathies to Nigeria over tomato 'emergency'

The barbers of Freetown in Sierra Leone

Graduates' fruitless search for employment

How Israel flew 14,000 people to safety in two days

Shea butter is made by women across sub-Saharan Africa's rural Sahel regions, including parts of Ghana.

The women who make shea butter for beauty products

The east African country of Eritrea is celebrating 25 years since it became independent from Ethiopia and the milestone is being marked with street parades in the capital Asmara.

Eritrea celebrates independence war tactics 25 years on

Why 700 people drowned in one incident in the Mediterranean

The Nigerian military has announced that 97 women and children held by the Islamist group Boko Haram have been rescued.

Debris from the missing EgyptAir flight has been found floating in the Mediterranean, Greek and Egyptian officials say.

Three people die in a "terrorist-style attack" on a mosque in Tanzania during evening prayers, police say, amid fears of a growing threat from militant Islam.

How the Ivory Coast has become the world's top exporter of cashew nuts.

The entrepreneur in South Africa producing custom-made bicycles.

Saving polar bears, sorting roses and high kicks

Zimbabwe has just introduced "bond notes" to help solve a serious cash shortage and kick-start its economy.

A second of 219 schoolgirls kidnapped from the Nigerian town of Chibok has been found, the army says, however the girls' parents cast doubt on the claims.

Attempts to tackle corruption and protect local business backfire