BBC Africa

You have probably never heard of Bekoji, but this small town in the highlands of Ethiopia has had a huge impact on athletics.

Malawi's President Peter Mutharika tells the BBC he feels ashamed by attacks on albinos in his country and calls on the church to help stop them.

Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp - the world's largest - will close by November, the country's Interior Minister Joseph Nkaisserry says.

Nigeria's Michael Babatunde ends his five-month stint with Morocco's Raja Casablanca to join relegated Qatar SC.

Ivory Coast international Serge Aurier will appear in court in September for an alleged assault on a police officer.

BBC Sport looks at the effects of Algeria's decision to ban foreign players from its leagues from next season.

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