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A mother-of-three inspires thousands by walking 250km across Somalia to prove the country finally has peace.

Two days of violence in the city of Kananga in central Democratic Republic of Congo have left at least 10 people dead.

The Cape Town supermarket owner selling food past its "sell-by" date.

Fifa secretary general Fatma Samoura says more must be done to make all elements of the football industry more open to women and minorities.

Rescuers says they have recovered at least 162 bodies after a boat carrying up to 600 migrants capsized off the Egyptian coast.

A 25-year-old becomes the first woman to head a local authority in Argungu city, in the mainly Muslim north of Nigeria - a move seen as unprecedented.

The impending sugar tax in South Africa is causing concern in the soft drinks industry.

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

Up to a billion people in Africa derive their main income from farming, but many get embroiled in disputes over whether they really own their land. Can tech help?

Factions within South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) are battling over how best to improve the party's electoral fortunes after a poor showing in August's local elections.

After Ghana's president John Mahama quoted lines from Michael Jackson's Heal the World at the UN, here are five more politicians who used their favourite lyric to make a point.

Kenyan Harrison Menza takes things like discarded whisky bottles and coconut shells and makes items that can be used again and again.

Some academics in Ghana have started a petition to take down a statue of ‘racist’ Gandhi.

As the security situation in DR Congo appears to be deteriorating, the BBC looks at the reasons behind the protests against President Kabila's rule.

In our series of letters from African journalists, Ghanaian writer Elizabeth Ohene considers the gap between Paralympic wonder and the reality for wheelchair users in Ghana.

The 193 countries of the United Nations are to sign a landmark declaration to rid the world of drug-resistant infections or superbugs.

The Senegalese wrestlers bringing the art of sumo from Japan to West Africa.

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola says he will not pick Yaya Toure until his agent apologises for making critical comments.

Nearly five million people in Somalia are without enough food due to poor rainfall, flash floods and internal displacement.

South African Paralympic shot-putter Tyrone Pillay says South African Airways refused to allow his prosthetic leg on board as he returned from Brazil.