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Africa
Dozens killed in Kenya road crash
Thirty people are also seriously injured after a truck lost control at a busy junction...
Future of Wagner contracts up to African states: Russia’s...
Saturday’s attempted mutiny in Russia has led to speculation about the status of...
Four killed in unseasonal rain, tornado in South Africa
Four people have died in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal after the southeastern province...
Ex-President’s wife, son arrested over money laundering...
Zambian police have arrested former President Edgar Lungu’s son and daughter-in-law...
The Nigerian with a mission to see a bagpipe revival
Pipe Major Chukwu Oba Kalu is trying to turn a teenage dream into a national revival...
Zimbabwe's obsession with Animal Farm as novel gets Shona...
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others" - this famous...
Uganda school attack: I covered myself in blood to hide
Student Julius Isingoma has told the BBC how he miraculously survived a night-time...
Cameroon's Ngonnso: 'My fight to bring our sacred stolen...
When Sylvie Vernyuy Njobati saw the sacred statue of her Nso people for the first...
Mali urges immediate end to UN Minusma peacekeeping mission
Mali's foreign minister has called on the UN to withdraw its peacekeeping force...
Uganda school attack: 40 killed by militants linked to...
At least 40 people, mostly students, have been killed at a school in western Uganda...
Sudan conflict: Doctors shaken by rape in Bahri and Khartoum
The voice of the female doctor in war-hit Sudan is shaky. She is leaving a message...
How Emefiele, Nigeria’s powerful central bank chief lost...
Godwin Emefiele was the second-longest-serving governor of Nigeria’s central bank,...
Guinness World Records: Hilda Baci's non-stop cooking record...
The efforts by a Nigerian chef to break the record for cooking non-stop have been...
Kenya sickle cell: Fighting to dispel the myths around...
Sickle cell disease affects more people in countries in Africa than anywhere else...
Nigerian kidnap gangs drive big-time Nigerian farmers away
In our series of letters from African journalists, writer and novelist Adaobi Tricia...