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Tens of thousands have been cleared from waterfront communities amid redevelopment efforts in Lagos.

Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani considers the incessant duel on facts between Nigeria and Amnesty.

More than a million people are still facing emergency levels of hunger, one step below famine.

Cameroon seek to impose themselves early on in Thursday's match against Australia at the Confederations Cup in Russia.

The deputy secretary general of Ethiopia's football federation wants African nations to do more to promote women's football.

The irony of #SocialMediaBlackout trending despite a call not to log on is not lost on South Africans.

Officials say bodies are lying in the street a day after rebels and the government agreed a truce.

Sierra Leone are good enough to qualify for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon, according to captain Umaru Bangura.

Meet Abdi Jama - a refugee from Somalia who overcame tragedy to became one of Great Britain's leading wheelchair basketball players

Many young Somalis risk everything trying to seek a better life in the Middle East or Europe - often because this is the only way they can afford to get married.

The most expensive cities around the globe for expats to live in are revealed in an annual survey.

He held the child out of a window in a high-rise building to attract "likes" on Facebook.

Tension has mounted after Qatar withdrew its peacekeepers guarding the disputed border between Eritrea and Djibouti

Mari Malek came to the US as a child refugee. Now she uses her supermodel status to advocate for children affected by war in South Sudan.

Tunisian women are expected to be virgins when they marry, leading some to have hymen surgery.

He fought stigma and violence to become a gospel star in Kenya.

Engy El Shazly started learning ballet at 27 while wearing her Islamic headscarf.

Mariam Staford Bandaba was attacked in Tanzania by a gang of men who chopped off her arms, believing albino body parts had magic properties. She is now able to work as a weaver.

His neighbours, in what is probably the world's most famous slum, stare but he doesn't care.

Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey returns to Sierra Leone for the first time since contracting Ebola there.