A two-decade old legal judgement should mean they are benefitting but they say they remain poor....
Thousands have been protesting for weeks in the southern city of Gabes....
As some Somali migrants fear what might happen next, the BBC speaks to one deportee in Mogadishu....
President John Mahama is the first sole candidate ever endorsed by ECOWAS for this role...
Nigeria's biggest city is known for its vibrant arts scene, nightlife and creativity, but street art is relatively unknown....
Built in the 1980s, the museum's 10 000 square meters of gallery space features mosaics and murals....
The recent Washington Accord was hailed as "historic" by the US president but the fighting continues....
Eritrea says it has been targetted by Igad and that the bloc is failing its founding principles....
Both the army and RSF have been accused by human rights groups of war crimes, charges they deny....
BBC Sport Africa picks out six players to keep an eye on at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco from 21 December to 18 January....
He is accused of using romance scams to defraud $8m, with the profits flaunted on Instagram....
This is the first time that officials have said how many foreign soldiers were deployed to help thwart the mutiny....
Adonay Berhane, Wongelawit Gebre Endrias and four others are accused by police of undermining public morality....
Last week, US President Trump described Somalis as "garbage"....
The landmark $2.5bn Kenya-US deal has been stopped until the court hears the case over data privacy....
Ghana says its citizens were subjected to "humiliating treatment" in Israel, which has not commented....
Togo's foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday....
The coup was thwarted after Nigeria sent warplanes to dislodge the mutineers from the offices of state TV....
The US Treasury said the network of four entities and four individuals is primarily Colombian....
Brumelda Zuma will represent the party led by her father in parliament after her half-sister resigned....
The two four-storey buildings that came down in Fez contained eight families, state media report....
Schools and shops remain closed in Uvira amid fears that rebels have seized some administrative buildings....
Local authorities in the Fez reported two adjacent four-storey buildings had collapsed overnight....
Officials say more than 64 000 people have been infected with the disease since the start of 2025....
His groundbreaking field research was instrumental in banning the international ivory trade and protecting elephants from poachers....
Poverty in Sierra Leone is pushing more students into risky work, which proved deadly for two boys....
UN said at least 74 people had been killed, mostly civilian in the eastern DRC....
The UAE has been widely accused of arming the RSF, an accusation it has denied....
Plotters misjudged the national mood and Benin's neighbours learnt from past errors, says analyst Paul Melly....
Ali Kushayb led the Janjaweed, a group whose campaign of terror led to hundreds of thousands of deaths....
The students are among over 300 pupils,12 staff seized by gunmen from St Mary's boarding school....
Nigeria denies the violation saying the aircraft made an emergency landing due to a technical issue....
There is a large police presence in major cities and the authorities have encouraged people to stay home....
A detailed study highlights the military's aerial campaign and how civilians have been its victims....
The school children were abducted last month from St. Mary's Catholic School in central Nigeria....
BBC Sport Africa provides all the information on the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations ahead of the 35th edition of the continent's biggest sporting event....
Nigeria sent fighter jets to help oust the mutineers from the national broadcaster and a military camp....
Drone attacks on a kindergarten and hospital killed 114 people, the World Health Organization says....
Details of the release of the schoolchildren are still unclear and 165 people remain unaccounted for....
Donald Trump says white South Africans are being persecuted and so qualify for asylum but black farmers are also being killed....
Talon said Benin's government and armed forces had thwarted a coup attempt by a group of soldiers...
ECOWAS and the African Union condemned the coup attempt....
J. D. 'Okhai Ojeikere has photographed over 2000 uniqie Nigerian hairstyles....
The announcement comes as the West African country prepares for a presidential election in April...
A message from the French embassy in Benin said gunfire had been reported near the residence of the president....
Protesters marched through central Tunis, chanting "the people want the fall of the regime"....
Drone strikes on a town in South Kordofan on Thursday are said to have killed at least 50 people....
Russia's Ambassador to Nigeria, Andrey Podelyshev made the commitment at an event in Abuja....
Gunmen stormed a hostel near Pretoria and opened fire, killing 11 people including a three-year-old....
Esther says she faced sexual violence on her journey to Europe after fleeing abuse in Nigeria....
Kenyan families whose sons have been duped into fighting for Russia demand they be brought home....
On the ground, fierce fighting continues with the warring sides blaming one another....
UN's humanitarian team in Sudan condemned the escalating violence across the Kordofan region...
Police Spokesperson says they are yet to receive formal notifications from those wishing to protest....
The violence has displaced more than 1.3 million people since 2017, according to the UN....
There is evidence of extrajudicial killings, disappearances and the concealment of bodies, 17 embassies say....
Namibia has built up large stockpiles of rhino horn after pioneering the practice of cutting them off to deter poachers....
Ex-cyclist Zeragaber Gebrehiwot, who attended the 1980 Moscow Games, is among 13 released from a notorious jail....
Kenya becomes the first African country to secure US health funding since cuts to foreign aid by Trump....
Orano, 90% owned by the French state, said it had not received any official notice of legal action....
DR Congo and Rwanda in Washington on Thursday to sign new deals aimed at stabilising war region...
Tensions between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda remain high...
Rights groups and the United Nations have said hundreds of people were likely killed in the clashes...
Meta confirms it removed Mange Kimambi's social media accounts for violating their policy....
BBC Sport's Ask Me Anything team explains when players will meet up with their countries at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations....
The US president hopes that a peace deal will pave the way for greater American investment in the resource-rich region....
Trump described Somalis as "garbage" and said "we don't want them in our country"....
A two-year investigation details disturbing accounts of rape, sexual violence, murders and environmental destruction....
The military has taken over but some say the overthrow of the president was not what it seemed....
President Cyril Ramaphosa has embarked on a working visit to Mozambique....
Known as "One Boss Lady", Ethel Chisono Edwards has become known for her rants about the president....
BBC Sport's Ask Me Anything team looks at every Premier League player who has been confirmed to feature at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco....
About one in four children MSF has seen at the camp is malnourished....
His departure on health grounds coincides with a spate of mass abductions across the West African state....
Nigeria says it is sheltering Fernando Dias in its embassy in Bissau, citing an imminent threat to his life....
Chinese companies provide jobs and much needed revenue in Zambia, where the disaster took place....
Andre Onana is one of several high-profile players left out of Cameroon's Africa Cup of Nations squad, as federation president Samuel Eto'o sacks the manager just weeks before the tournament....
History-making African cyclist Biniam Girmay signs for NSN Cycling - the new team co-owned by World Cup winner Andres Iniesta....
The group has been charged under a law which prohibits people from joining foreign armies....
The army seized power a day before the Electoral Commission was due to announce results....
Anicet Ekane's lawyer says the family was given little explanation - "his wife was just presented the corpse"....
A church is raided in central Nigeria and a wedding party in the mostly Muslim north....
The mediation team from the ECOWAS - comprising the presidents of Togo, Cape Verde and Senegal...
The BBC visits a camp where people are taking refuge after the fall of el-Fasher city....
Unemployment, crime and the negative impact of climate change....
The 58th SADC Plenary Forum's theme relates to climate change on women and in the youth SADC Region....
Parents of kidnapped children know where the bandits hide out, but are too scared to inform the authorities....
At least 19 people died when heavy winds caused a boat to capsize on DRC's Lake Mai-Ndombe...
The killing comes amid a wave of kidnappings in northern Nigeria....
According to the DRC Presidency, the final peace deal with Rwanda will be signed on December 4....
Analysts instead blame criminal gangs for the kidnapping of more than 250 schoolchildren last week....
The war is being fuelled by regional powers and the US president may have some leverage over them....
Senegal's prime minister and Nigeria's former leader say they do not believe the military takeover was genuine....
Guinea-Bissau military officers installed Major-General Horta Inta-a as transitional president...
Zambia's government is accused of 'hypocrisy' as fallout from ex-president's death deepens....
The defendants were accused of attempting a coup - but human rights groups say the trial was politically motivated....
A South African allegedly recruited to fight for Russia recounts the horrors of war in Ukraine via voice notes....
The country faces many deadly security challenges, leaving the army and police severely overstretched....
Gen Horta N’Tam is sworn in during a ceremony at the army headquarters....
Ahead of the coup announcement, witnesses said gunfire rang out in the capital Bissau....