BBC Africa

Architect tells the BBC about the challenge of building the world's smallest airport

The invention that stops girls missing school every month

The former ruler of Chad has been found guilty of crimes against humanity, rape and sexual slavery and is jailed for life.

A Senegalese court jails Chad ex-leader Hissene Habre for life for crimes against humanity, in the first African Union-backed trial of a former ruler.

As Chad's ex-ruler Hissene Habre is convicted of crimes against humanity, the BBC's Maud Jullien looks back at the landmark trial in Senegal.

A military court in Somalia sentences two men to life in prison for masterminding a bomb attack on a Daallo Airlines passenger plane in February.

Niger battles multiple terror threats

Five United Nations peacekeepers are killed and another is seriously injured in an attack in central Mali.

Up to 700 migrants are feared drowned in a series of shipwrecks off the coast of Libya in the last few days, the UN refugee agency says.

Zoo officials shoot dead a gorilla after it grabbed a four-year-old boy who fell into its enclosure in the US city of Cincinnati.

Senegal's Mohamed Diame scores as Hull City defeat Sheffield Wednesday 1-0 in the play-off final to win promotion to the Premier League.

Sierra Leonean striker Alhaji Kamara scores for DC United, three months after being cleared of a heart defect.

Nigeria's president in quotes on his first anniversary

Wading donkeys, Mugabe mania and giant sea snails

Five people convicted of terrorism over the 2010 bomb attacks in Uganda's capital, Kampala, which killed 74 people, are given life sentences.

As a French naval ship is heading for the EgyptAir crash site to help find the flight recorders, confusion reigns over signals detected from the emergency beacon.

Donkeys without nappies are banned from entering a north-eastern Kenyan town to protect its first tarmac road from faeces.

Some Zambian artists are hopeful there are signs the country's creative industry is beginning to flourish.

Despite the unfavourable economic environment, some businesses in Zambia are managing to thrive.

One of the survivors of a Mediterranean migrant capsize caught on film has told the BBC that he thought he was going to die.