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Africans in the US are divided over which presidential candidate to support.

Negeri Lencho, a former journalism lecturer, appointed this week as Ethiopia's new communications minister, tells the BBC he supports more freedom for the press.

Tanzania's President John Magufuli is marking a year in office, but celebrations are unlikely to be extravagant.

With the economy in recession, Nigeria's popular television programme The Johnsons attempts to lighten the mood.

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

Tanzania's president John Magufuli marks one year in office today. What has he achieved? The BBC's Dickens Olewe reports on the highs and lows.

In our series of letters from African journalists, Sola Odunfa looks at why it is a good idea for Nigeria to reintroduce history as a school subject.

Kenya condemns the sacking of the South Sudan UN force head and says it will withdraw its troops.

A probe finds evidence of possible corruption at the top level of South Africa's government.

Theresa Kachindamoto, a senior chief of a district in Malawi, has terminated 840 marriages, sending the young couples back to school.

Safa president Danny Jordaan tells former Bafana Bafana captain Neil Tovey not to "rush things" as he recovers from a serious heart attack.

Thousands of people march in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, calling for President Jacob Zuma to step down.

President Yahya Jammeh of The Gambia is using violence ahead of elections, a rights group says.

This year's Lagos Photo Festival in Nigeria brings together well-known photographers and their take on identity in Africa.

The yes campaign has won 93% of the vote in Sunday's referendum on a new Ivory Coast constitution.

Cyclists and motorists in Burundi's capital, Bujumbura, are being forced to pay parking fees for the first time.

Eleven people are arrested in Morocco after a fish-seller was crushed to death in a refuse truck prompting days of protests.

More than 200 migrants cross barbed-wire border fences to reach Spanish territory of Ceuta from Morocco.

Egypt coach Hector Cuper names a 23-man squad for the 2018 World Cup showdown against Ghana later this month.

The first graduates from Namibia's own medical school are now on the wards and the BBC's Pumza Fihlani finds out what difference they are making.