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Sudanese protest icon Alaa Salah tells the BBC of her unexpected fame after demonstrating against the country’s former leader.

The new Bombardier jets landed in Uganda bearing the national colours and symbol of the crane.

The protesters are digging in but it's unclear how they can persuade the army to hand over power.

The West African girl was forced to clean and cook for the Texas family for 16 years.

The French police and the Tunisian Football Federation are looking into suspicious betting patterns involving football matches in Tunisia.

Meet the choir in Nairobi promoting peace and education.

Nine-year-old chef Sammy started cooking two years ago and now works with local orphanages in Lagos.

It is a topic shrouded in shame, but traction alopecia may affect one-third of women of African descent.

With few street names in The Gambia, people have to get creative about giving directions.

A festival celebrating this year’s planting season brings together thousands of people in Nigeria.

A selection of photos from across Africa and Africans elsewhere this week.

Sudanese protest groups require unity to secure civilian rule, the BBC's Alastair Leithead says.

A child known as Baby A became the subject of a high court case that has prompted Kenya to start changing its approach to intersex children.

Automation could wipe out many jobs in developing countries, says globalisation expert Ian Goldin.

Online groups are targeting and killing young men in Kenya they believe to be gang members.

A photographer breaks stereotypes in Senegal to show that men can be seen in public caring for their children.

On the fifth anniversary of the schoolgirls' kidnapping, more than 100 are still missing.

Photographer Sanlé Sory spent 25 years documenting night life in the West African country of Burkina Faso.

Capturing the defiant and growing crowds outside the army headquarters in Sudan's capital.

Yaya Toure says Leonardo Bonucci's suggestion that Juventus team-mate Moise Kean was partly to blame for the racist abuse he received is "unbelievable".