Africa

A selection of the best photos from across the African continent this year.

Chelsea have announced a deal with Norwegian club Molde FK for the transfer of their 20-year-old Ivorian striker David Datro Fofana.

Some Kenyan students blame intensified curriculum for the spike in numbers of boarding school fires.

After returning from Europe in October, the cleric was detained without being charged or put on trial.

A female lawyer was shot in the main city Lagos as she was returning home from a church service.

Australia thrash South Africa by an innings and 182 runs in the second Test to win the series with a game to spare.

World Cup semi-finalists Morocco say they will not defend their CHAN title unless hosts Algeria allowed to fly directly.

Passenger flights resume between Addis Ababa and war-devastated Tigray, following a peace deal.

A drunk car driver ploughs into crowds at the annual event in the southern port city of Calabar.

Adama Diémé was motivated after seeing once-verdant villages in Senegal without a single tree.

The second of three programmes looking at highlights of five years of BBC Sport Africa.

Predictions by some faith leaders have sometimes caused anxiety and harm, the security services say.

Lance Corporal Sanna Fadera's family calls for his release, saying he was only a medic in the navy.

Barbers in Britain are being trained to recognise mental health issues and how to help clients get the support they need.

Women open up about the problem of opioid abuse in Somalia following the death of a popular TikToker.

A landmine kills at least 10 passengers as the West African country battles a jihadist insurgency.

London-based artist Pauli The PSM talks about ambient music, being a 'badman' and The Jetsons.

Some of the 14 fishermen were abducted by al-Shabab militants off the Somali coast eight years ago.

Part one of the best of BBC Sport Africa.

Thirteen-year old Zimbabwean singer Andrea went viral after a church goes filmed him singing.