Africa

The revelation that a South African pastor has been spraying insecticide on his church members in a healing ritual has shocked many but he is not the only self-styled pastor in Africa to resort to highly questionable practices.

Nigeria thrash Kenya 4-0 to reach the semi-finals of the women's Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon along with Ghana who beat Mali 3-1.

At least 11 are killed and 16 others injured as a car bomb hits a busy market in Mogadishu.

Taps seize to flow as water shortage hits Zimbabwe's capital, Harare.

Condemning the recent outbreak of ethnic violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) that has killed scores of people, the United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide has called for an immediate end to the hostilities and urged the authorities to take urgent measures to protect the population from further violence, regardless of their ethnicity or political affiliation.

The United Nations and other members of the international community have commended the efforts of Somalia’s electoral bodies to ensure a credible and legitimate electoral process and supported the bodies’ decisions to disqualify candidates who engaged in corruption, intimidation and manipulation in the ongoing parliamentary elections.

Wrapping up a visit to Africa’s Great Lakes region, a United Nations envoy today urged stakeholders in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) electoral process to do more to help ensure the country is able to hold peaceful elections.

Zimbabwe's capital is suffering from a major water shortage - and a generation has grown up never having taken a shower.

A group of vintage air rally pilots lands in Kenya after being freed from detention in Ethiopia.

Kenya's top political show Jeff Koinange Live is dropped after a rape comment is made about a guest.

There is evidence of massive corruption in Somalia's ongoing elections, the auditor general tells the BBC.

With the collapse in the international oil price, Nigeria is under pressure to broaden its economic activity.

A selection of the best photos from across Africa this week.

A public exhibition of dirty underwear is trying to raise awareness of the huge, but often under-reported, problem of rape and sexual violence in South Africa.

A Congolese fashion designer is finding fame - making clothes out of paper.

The BBC looks at the militant Islamist group Boko Haram, which is fighting to overthrow the Nigerian government and create an Islamic state in parts of West Africa.

Spanish prosecutors are seeking a prison term of more than 10 years for former Barcelona striker Samuel Eto'o for alleged tax crimes.

Archaeologists in Egypt unearth what they describe as a city that dates back more than 5,000 years.

A four-year-old girl who travelled alone to Italy will be reunited with her mother after a twist of fate.

Warning that ongoing unrest and rising inflation have left more than five million people in restive north-east Nigeria facing acute food insecurity, the United Nations agriculture agency today appealed for $25 million through May 2017 to support irrigated vegetable production and micro-gardening in the dry season, as well as rebuild livestock systems.