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Concerns grow for people's safety in Sudan's war-torn Darfur as peacekeepers prepare to leave.

Abdulhadi avoided the mass kidnapping in Nigeria's Katsina school but his twin brother Mustapha was lost in the chaos.

A student who escaped after gunmen raided an all-boys school in Nigeria speaks to the BBC.

The catwalk in Dakar has been moved into a baobab forest due to Covid-19 restrictions.

More than 17 million Ghanaians were eligible to vote in Monday's poll to elect a new president and parliament.

Reporter Fateh Al-Rahman Al-Hamdani writes about his experience of secretly filming inside Sudan's Islamic boarding schools to expose abuse, and reveals why the investigation was so personal to him.

Kenya's Kibiwott Kandie sets a new world record for the half marathon - in a race where the top four finishers all beat the previous record.

South Africa's farmers are fighting ongoing locust swarms to preserve the country's food security.

Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed has found himself in a conflict less than a year after winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

"It is really scary. It is really difficult," a resident of the Tigray capital, Mekelle, shouts down the line.

The mixed-race Irish people searching for their African roots.

As 300 UK troops arrive in Mali, the BBC's Frank Gardner looks at the role of Islamist militants across Africa.

How a group of people set out to clean up Cape Town's beaches.

BEC hacking is one of the most common types of cyber-attack and experts say Nigeria is its epicentre.

Doreen Moracha was born HIV positive is now an advocate raising awareness and fighting the stigma.

How South African women defeated plans to restrict the movement of black South Africans.

Nurse Tshego is fighting a virus that brings her face to face with stigma, poverty and corruption.

A climate activist has won a prestigious prize for leading the battle to block it being built in Ghana.

The country has rebuffed African efforts to find a negotiated settlement to the Tigray conflict.

BBC correspondents across the east Africa region explain the impact for Ethiopia and its neighbours.