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About 1.2 million people have lost their jobs since coronavirus hit the East African state in March.

As statues are toppled and defaced, a light is being shone on countries' colonial history.

Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza died suddenly after being admitted to a hospital on Saturday.

Pierre Nkurunziza was admitted to hospital on Saturday after feeling unwell, the government says.

The politicians caused a stir for having on scarves of African design as they knelt for George Floyd.

Tshegofatso Pule had been missing for four days before her body was discovered.

The continent is increasingly becoming a part of Washington and Beijing's new cold war battlefield.

Ernesto Yeboah's lawyer says that charges that he breached lockdown rules were "baseless".

President John Magufuli says prayers have helped eliminate the deadly virus from the country.

A new online project documents the country's challenges amid the pandemic.

Children are now having to police their credulous parents about fake news, writes Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani.

After two months of revising in lockdown, Tanzanian secondary school students are back at their desks.

We examine claims of bribes and poison, a positive virus test that was not and anti-virus "badges".

Kenya faces a race against time to tackle the swarms as the end of the insects' breeding season clashes with harvests.

The people can't go to the animals, but some companies are finding ways to bring them into homes.

France announces it has killed the leader of al-Qaeda in north Africa in an operation in Mali.

Rijasoa Andriamanana said pupils would be given lollipops to mask the taste of a coronavirus "cure".

Sierra Leone's US-based striker Kei Kamara says his children inspired him to join this week's protests following the death of George Floyd.

The emergency doctor who attended Cameroonian Patrick Ekeng prior to his death in Romania in 2016 has been handed an 18-month suspended jail sentence for negligence.

The girls were cut after their father said they were receiving a coronavirus "vaccine", officials say.