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Gabon striker Malick Evouna is set to join Chinese Super League side Tianjin Teda from Al Ahly for a record fee paid to an African club.

Well known Burundian politician and former BBC journalist Hafsa Mossi is shot dead - the latest killing in a year of unrest.

Egypt's security services have forcibly made hundreds of people disappear and tortured them in a campaign to tackle dissent, Amnesty International says.

A Zimbabwean Pastor, Evan Mawarire, has been charged with inciting public violence and disturbing the peace after a series of protests.

The Sun-powered aircraft Solar Impulse finishes its penultimate flight, landing in Egypt's capital, Cairo, after a 48-hour flight from Seville.

Most comic book superheroes are Europeans or white Americans but one artist in South Africa has been trying to change that.

Why are Zimbabweans being urged to observe a two-day national "shutdown"?

Ugandans have been poking fun at their president after he was snapped seated on a deckchair on the side of a village road, chatting on the phone.

At South Africa's National arts festival, trombone-playing jazz singer Siya Makuzeni explains how she manages to perform both.

The BBC's Piers Edwards explains the little-known story behind the African boycott to the 1966 World Cup, the only World Cup in history to have been snubbed by an entire continent.

A profile of Eder, the footballer who scored the goal that won the Euro 2016 final for Portugal but who was born in the West African country of Guinea-Bissau and grew up in a care home.

Two residents of South Sudan's capital, Juba, speak about life in the city as clashes between rival groups of soldiers continue.

How Daniele Henkel escaped Algeria before the start of its civil war, and started a health and beauty business in Canada that made her a multi-millionaire.

India's prime minister is on an African charm offensive, visiting four nations where he hopes to tie up energy and trade deals and remind the continent of their cultural and historical bonds. But how do things stand now?

In her regular column about African music, DJ Rita Ray delves into back-to-the future sounds from Sierra Leone, Congolese funeral trance and jazz and samples some Malawian-Naija Afropop.

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

The recent killing of human rights lawyer Willie Kimani and two others has once again put the Kenyan police in the spotlight. The police have been accused of running death squads, a claim they deny. The BBC's Tomi Oladipo investigates the growing public mistrust of the police, especially among young men.

Foreign fishing vessels operate illegally off the coast of Guinea, depleting its fish population and destroying marine life. Despite the economic and social consequences of illegal fishing, the Guinean government has failed to police its waters because it doesn't have money to operate surveillance equipment, as the BBC's Tamasin Ford reports.

A look at a new scheme in Tunisia that aims to helps impoverished beekeepers produce more honey to help them boost their incomes.

Criscent Bwambale, six, sees for the first time after an operation to remove cataracts in Uganda.