BBC News - Africa
Updated: 4 days 15 hours ago
Thu, 08/12/2016 - 01:43
In our series of letters from African journalists, Mannir Dan Ali considers why the Nigerian president is finding it hard to please anyone.
Wed, 07/12/2016 - 19:59
Kenya's high court rules that a government directive to collect data about HIV children is unconstitutional.
Wed, 07/12/2016 - 19:20
Long queues in Ghana during elections to choose a new president, after candidates made a peace pledge.
Wed, 07/12/2016 - 18:51
A Kenyan rights group says police have killed more than 80 mainly Muslims in extrajudicial killings over four years.
Wed, 07/12/2016 - 16:05
An Egyptian woman, said to weigh 500kg, is to be airlifted to India for weight reduction surgery.
Wed, 07/12/2016 - 15:41
Voters in northern Ghana have a special way of reserving their place in polling station queues.
Wed, 07/12/2016 - 15:19
A correspondent working in South Sudan says he has been deported for being too critical of the government.
Wed, 07/12/2016 - 13:38
Nigeria's women's team insist they will not end their sit-in at a hotel in Abuja until they are paid outstanding bonuses of US$23,650 per player.
Wed, 07/12/2016 - 04:41
Research has cast doubt on a UN-backed project to reduce pollution-induced illness in the world's poorest children by providing 100 million homes with a smoke-free stove.
Wed, 07/12/2016 - 01:02
Residents of the Namibian town of Luderitz are at odds over whether they should scrap its German colonial name.
Wed, 07/12/2016 - 01:02
Research casts doubt on a global mission to use cleaner-burning stoves, to prevent pollution-induced illness in the world's poorest children.
Tue, 06/12/2016 - 23:14
The UN could launch a new inquiry into the 1961 air crash that killed then UN chief Dag Hammarskjold.
Tue, 06/12/2016 - 19:39
Libyan forces hunt down the last IS fighters after ejecting them from their Sirte stronghold.
Tue, 06/12/2016 - 17:52
The brother of a patient in a Kenyan hospital tells the BBC's World Have Your Say he thinks the doctors' strike over pay is "inhumane".
Tue, 06/12/2016 - 17:46
British-Ghanaians explain what they want from the upcoming presidential election and what would convince them to return to Ghana.
Tue, 06/12/2016 - 15:31
The Ghana opposition leader hopes his industry vow will make the difference, writes Adelaide Arthur.
Tue, 06/12/2016 - 15:24
President Mahama is seeking re-election after serving a four-year first term plagued by power cuts.
Tue, 06/12/2016 - 15:13
Egypt arrests 25 people, including doctors and nurses, accused of illegal organ trafficking.
Tue, 06/12/2016 - 11:06
Kenyan officials have said nothing about the country's "largest military defeat" at a base in Somalia.
Tue, 06/12/2016 - 04:23
Abducted as a child by Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebel group, Dominic Ongwen became one of its most ruthless commanders, so should he face trial at the ICC?
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