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The deal aims to increase the relatively low trade between African countries.

African basketball stars discuss Kobe Bryant's legacy one year since his death in a helicopter crash.

No reason was given but the country continues to grapple with insecurity and an Islamist insurgency.

The animals are being nursed back to health at a zoo after Austrian airport security spotted them.

Elephant tusks and rhino horns "hidden inside African masks" were exported, US prosecutors say.

Tributes have been paid to former Botswana coach David Bright who has died after being diagnosed with Covid-19.

Foreign investment into solar products are helping to plug Zambia's power shortage problems.

Zimbabwean doctor Dixon Chibanda explains why it's so vital that Zimbabwe gets vaccines urgently.

Thirty years since Somalia plunged into civil war, BBC Africa correspondent Andrew Harding has returned to Mogadishu to see what hopes people have for peace.

The restrictions come as Minnesota records the first US case of the Brazil Covid variant.

Doctors were furious with the government spokesman's comments about politicians' coronavirus deaths.

Soldiers prevented him leaving his house in case he organised protests against disputed elections.

Photographer George Logan highlights the decline of wild lions using conceptual images.

A father tells the BBC his tragic story of fleeing the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region.

BBC Africa Eye looks at the inside story of Detective Jane Mugo, the woman they call Kenya’s "spy queen".

It's been 10 years since Egyptians took to the streets to unseat their longest-serving President, Hosni Mubarak.

Officials are assessing the scale of the damage and trying to restore power in parts of Beira.

Ten years after ousting their strongman leader, some say the new system isn't working.

President Joe Biden will need to renew the relationship with the continent, writes Waihiga Mwaura.

Tanzania beat Namibia while Morocco are held in the second round of matches at the African Nations Championship in Cameroon.