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Niger battles multiple terror threats

Five United Nations peacekeepers are killed and another is seriously injured in an attack in central Mali.

Up to 700 migrants are feared drowned in a series of shipwrecks off the coast of Libya in the last few days, the UN refugee agency says.

Zoo officials shoot dead a gorilla after it grabbed a four-year-old boy who fell into its enclosure in the US city of Cincinnati.

Senegal's Mohamed Diame scores as Hull City defeat Sheffield Wednesday 1-0 in the play-off final to win promotion to the Premier League.

Sierra Leonean striker Alhaji Kamara scores for DC United, three months after being cleared of a heart defect.

Nigeria's president in quotes on his first anniversary

Wading donkeys, Mugabe mania and giant sea snails

Five people convicted of terrorism over the 2010 bomb attacks in Uganda's capital, Kampala, which killed 74 people, are given life sentences.

As a French naval ship is heading for the EgyptAir crash site to help find the flight recorders, confusion reigns over signals detected from the emergency beacon.

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