BBC News - Africa
Updated: 1 hour 19 min ago
Thu, 08/27/2020 - 10:54
Colorado Rapids' Kei Kamara backs his team's decision not play against FC Dallas in protest over the shooting of Jacob Blake.
Thu, 08/27/2020 - 01:13
Ota Benga was kidnapped from what is now DR Congo in 1904 and taken to the US to be exhibited.
Wed, 08/26/2020 - 15:49
Ntando Mahlangu went from not being able to walk to Paralympian in just four years.
Wed, 08/26/2020 - 13:35
The discovery of 13 dead dolphins causes much sadness and anger among locals.
Wed, 08/26/2020 - 09:54
The World Trade Organization is currently looking for a new director-general and three of the candidates are African.
Wed, 08/26/2020 - 02:37
A farming community in South Africa is reeling after the bodies of five women were recently discovered.
Tue, 08/25/2020 - 18:53
The malicious code could sign owners up to subscription services without permission.
Tue, 08/25/2020 - 17:13
The death of a woman whose one-year-old child was reportedly found malnourished beside her body is being investigated.
Tue, 08/25/2020 - 14:25
Sudan is on the US' list of state sponsors of terror as al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden lived there.
Tue, 08/25/2020 - 12:45
Nigerian women's footballer Chinenye Okafor quit playing to become a hairdresser after going unpaid for 13 months.
Tue, 08/25/2020 - 09:09
A factory in Uganda is providing accommodation for workers so that they could keep working during lockdown.
Tue, 08/25/2020 - 09:08
The killing of Hachalu Hundessa laid bare the deep-seated ethnic animosity in Ethiopia.
Tue, 08/25/2020 - 08:30
Nigeria is now rid of wild polio having had more than half of global cases less than 10 years ago.
Tue, 08/25/2020 - 02:10
Some Kenyan private schools have found new sources of income after they were forced to close.
Mon, 08/24/2020 - 19:59
A regional delegation failed to convince the military leaders to reinstate the deposed president.
Mon, 08/24/2020 - 18:43
The 2,000-year-old Jabal Maragha site was thought to have been a small settlement or a checkpoint.
Mon, 08/24/2020 - 14:40
Tito Mboweni caused a diplomatic incident by telling Zambia's president "hell is on its way".
Mon, 08/24/2020 - 01:04
Suspected Covid-19 patients were routinely left in an open tent, in sub-zero temperatures, the BBC finds.
Sun, 08/23/2020 - 01:11
Some Italians are revaluating their colonial past in East Africa, writes Ismail Einashe.
Sat, 08/22/2020 - 17:44
Fredie Blom's identity documents showed he was born in 1904, although his record was never verified.
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