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Nigeria's 2016 budget documents have gone missing at the country's parliament, an MP who requested anonymity tells the BBC.

A court in Zimbabwe throws out a "criminal insult" charge brought against a ruling party MP accused of calling first lady Grace Mugabe a "fool".

Ghana's president strongly defends the government's decision to allow two Yemenis freed from Guantanamo Bay to live in the West African state.

Kenya's evangelical churches condemn government plans to make it tougher for religious bodies and clerics from all faiths to operate.

The ex-wife of Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony says she is yet to be fully reintegrated into the society years after fleeing from the notorious Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).

Social changes to watch out for in Africa in 2016

The former footballer reflects on the night his heart stopped for 78 minutes and reveals who he owes his life to.

Students at Kenya's Garissa University College are resuming classes nine months after an attack by militant Islamist group al-Shabab.

The Bamako bikers who gather each Sunday to show off

The unsung women of Africa who change lives for the better

Hundreds have died in Burundi since the president announced he would be running for a third term last year.

Falling commodity prices, China's slowdown and other problems mean a bleak new year in store

Jumping for joy, camel rides and mountain pilgrimages

Nigeria has been battling the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram for the past six years but for some people life is now getting back to some degree of normality.

How Africa has been affected by Middle East dispute

Car in roof, Lupita's twirl, queen's selfie and a supermoon

Nigeria's president announces plans to raise spending by 20% next year by borrowing heavily amid falling oil prices

Egyptian champions Zamalek will remain in country's top flight after reversing a decision to pull out in protest against refereeing.

An Islamist-led insurgency has kept about one million children out of school in Nigeria and three neighbouring states, the UN children's agency says.

A former IAAF marketing consultant Papa Diack - ex-president Lamine Diack's son - "totally rejects" extortion and bribery claims.