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Maltreatment of adults with mental illness and children living with relatives has shocked Nigerians.

August Agboola Browne is thought to have been the only black person in the Polish resistance.

Kenenisa Bekele's much-anticipated London Marathon duel with Eliud Kipchoge is off as the Ethiopian pulls out of Sunday's race with a calf injury.

Thousands of Ethiopian detainees are facing "unimaginable cruelty", Amnesty International says.

A group of Nigerian-Irish teens have developed the Memory Haven app to help people with dementia.

A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent and beyond.

As the African nation continues to ban the import of used US clothes, China takes advantage.

Ghanaian artist AY Poyoo is a comedian turn musician and a self-proclaimed face of Ghanaian hip-hop scene.

A new book highlights the "sapeurs" in the twin Congolese capitals of Brazzaville and Kinshasa.

Reverend June Major has undertaken unorthodox protests to get the Anglican church of Southern Africa to investigate her case.

When Gambian orphan Muhammed Sanneh arrived in Sicily aged 16, his life took an unexpected turn.

Dina Ekanga is a Congolese 'nail' artist who was inspired by the Nkisi Nkondi sculptures of the Kongo people.

Athletics legend Haile Gebrselassie explains how he was assisted by the ‘Leg of God’.

Grace Umutoni grew up not knowing her birth name, only that her parents had been killed in the Rwandan genocide.

Sam is unemployed as a result of the pandemic and has dedicated himself to taking care of his ailing mother.

The BBC and human rights researchers examined a video of a killing in northern Mozambique.

An explosion in Lagos, Nigeria killed 23 people and destroyed a girls’ boarding school. But what caused it?

The 27 wooden coffins are said to have lain undisturbed inside a well at an ancient necropolis.

An overnight blaze leaves a distinctive building at one of Africa's oldest universities a shell.

Sound science "will be the sole basis" for safe and effective therapies to be adopted, the WHO says.