The deaths of the environmentalist and eight other campaigners sparked an global outcry in 1995....
Kenyan social media blogger Albert Ojwang died in police custody following his arrest....
The boy travelled to Ghana from London in March 2024 after being told a relative was ill....
Burundi is set to have a one-party parliament following a poll that the opposition says was rigged....
Edgar Lungu's family says he left instructions that President Hichilema should not come near his body....
As four African sides prepare for the Club World Cup, BBC Sport Africa looks at what impact the expanded 32-team tournament could have on the continent....
The move comes as the continent's exports face the possibility of high tariffs from the US....
Most of Lesotho's highland areas are still not reachable due to heavy snowfall....
A UN official warns that hundreds of thousands in the sprawling camp are "slowly starving"....
The alleged rape is the latest allegation of misconduct made against soldiers at a controversial base in Kenya....
This has been reveled at Ministerial meeting of FOCAC in China....
The death of Albert Ojwang was the latest incident to draw scrutiny of Kenya's security services....
Three children were rescued on Tuesday reportedly found clinging to trees after their bus was swept away....
A UN human rights panel says the deal "fails to guarantee" the rights of Chagossians....
US President Donald Trump's administration is holding talks to end fighting in eastern DRC....
Clashing ideas over how Edgar Lungu should be honoured have led to a political standoff....
Three children have been found alive, with search and rescue operations suspended for the night....
Lubinda has lamented how former President Lungu was treated after leaving office....
Albert Ojwang did not die of self-inflicted injuries, pathologists say, contradicting the police....
The UN food agency said it had reached one million people in seven localities in Khartoum....
Ivory Coast court ruled that Tidjane Thiam should be removed from the electoral roll....
Three opposition politicians and the former speaker of parliament have been charged over last year's Capitol fire....
The Ojude Oba festival in south-west Nigeria combines fashion and culture connecting people to their roots....
It comes after the 71-year-old’s comments at a political rally in Paris inflamed ruling party officials back home....
Former Zambian President Edgar Lungu died at a medical centre in Pretoria....
M23 rebels seized eastern DRC's two largest cities in an offensive earlier this year....
Police say Albert Ojwang injured himself in a cell, but Amnesty calls the death "suspicious"....
Kigali accuses the central African organisation Eccas of pandering to the demands of Kinshasa....
M23 seized eastern Congo's two largest cities earlier this year....
Military police are investigating the alleged incident near the British army's training camp in Kenya...
Bryan Mbeumo has become one of the most sought-after players in the English Premier League....
How social media is pushing back against the still common idea that African societies never had a knowledge system....
Why models from South Sudan, a lush but troubled nation, are sought after by the big fashion brands....
Former Zambian President, Edgar Lungu's death has seen condolences coming in far and wide...
Botswana, one of the world's biggest diamond producers, has been struck by a global decline in the market....
A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond....
The Rwanda-backed insurgents seized eastern Congo's two largest cities....
The 65-year-old is alleged to be at the centre of several corruption cases; he has said he has been unlawfully treated....
Bryan Mbeumo's stellar Premier League season with Brentford has seen him linked with a move to Manchester United. But what is the secret of his success?...
Zambia’s former President Edgar Lungu died on Thursday at the age of 68....
The Bushiri's face charges including fraud and money laundering....
Lungu died on Thursday and was receiving medical care in South Africa for an unspecified illness....
Lungu was head of state of the Southern African country between 2015 and 2021...
He had "been receiving specialized treatment in South Africa", his party says....
The bank had ended all lending to Uganda because of its harsh anti-LGBT laws....
Seven of the 12 countries whose nationals are banned from going to the US are in Africa....
Outright war fighting in Libya abated with a ceasefire in 2020....
Voters are heading to the polls following a campaign period marked by reports of political repression....
The content is contrary to the nation's "laws, culture, customs, and traditions", the information minister says....
Outlets who breach the ban could face suspension, the media regulator warns....
Thiam, Gbagbo, Soro and Ble Goude barred from election...
One critic says the "state machinery" has been used "in defence of fragile egos"....
South Africa is trying to extradite pastor Shepherd Bushiri from Malawi on fraud charges, which he denies....
Former DRC President Joseph Kabila met with women and youth associations to discuss restoring peace....
The BBC speaks to the mother and brother of a man wanted in connection with illicit gold mining....
UNHCR’s Dossou Patrice Ahouansou said shelter conditions are dire in Chad due to funding shortages....
The convoy of 15 trucks was attempting to reach children and families in famine-effected El-Fasher...
Boniface Mwangi says he has decided to speak despite the "shame and guilt" of being "sexually tortured"....
A female suicide bomber and an accomplice were "intercepted and neutralized", the army says....
Initial reports suggest multiple casualties following the attack on the convoy, a UN spokesperson says....
Nigeria boss Eric Chelle expects Europe's top sides to show interest in Victor Osimhen after the striker helped fire Galatasaray to the Turkish title....
M23 rebels in DRC executed at least 21 civilians over two days in February in Goma....
Nigeria accounts for 29% of global maternal deaths - a lack of medics and poor facilities are partly to blame....
As part of the deal, the UK will secure lucrative investment projects in the 2030 World Cup....
Kano State declares Monday as a day of mourning after 22 people died a road accident while returning from a sports festival in south-west Nigeria....
The army says it defended its post "vigorously" but eventually withdrew, as militants seized on their base....
Borno state police spokesperson Nahum Kenneth Daso confirmed the incident....
Rose Njeri developed a tool to help people oppose the government's finance bill....
Morocco considers Western Sahara as its own the territory against Polisario front....
The law allows for land to be seized without compensation in rare cases and 'in the public interest'....
Pyramids win their first ever African Champions League title after beating Mamelodi Sundowns 2-1 in Cairo to seal a 3-2 win on aggregate....
Over 150 dead, 3,000 displaced after severe flooding hits Mokwa in Niger State, officials confirm....
There are 500 people missing in the town of Mokwa, but officials fear no more survivors will be found....
Residents of a Nigeria town tell the BBC they are homeless and penniless after devastating floods....
Nigeria is prone to flooding during the rainy season, which began in April....
Pet owners are struggling with the rising cost of living in the West African nation....
Emergency services warn the number of victims may rise as recovery and rescue operations continue....
World Boxing says Olympic champion Imane Khelif will not be allowed to fight in the female category at their competitions until she undergoes a mandatory sex test....
Last year, Nigeria offered a 25% gas utilisation investment allowance for equipment and plants....
The European Parliament adopted a resolution denouncing Lissu's arrest as politically motivated....
Nigeria is prone to flooding during the rainy season, which began in April....
Torrential rains in the central town of Mokwa led to the deadly floods, authorities say....
Local media reported that 18 soldiers, 15 policemen and eight civilians were taken into custody....
A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond....
Somalians hope hosting Emmanuel Adebayor, Samuel Eto'o and Jay Jay Okocha in a legends game can help bring international football back to the country after nearly 40 years....
The main suspect in the murder of Olorato Mongale was found by police on Friday morning....
Joseph Kabila is wanted for alleged crimes against humanity for supporting the insurgency....
Part of the presidential jet's landing gear malfunctioned while approaching the runway, authorities say....
Bola Tinubu introduced painful economic reforms but says these are now starting to bear fruit....
German soldiers killed some 65 000 OvaHerero and 10 000 Nama people between 1904 and 1908....
The 30-year-old was found dead hours after she left home to see a man she had recently met....
Joshlin Smith is yet to be found more than a year after she went missing from her home....
Joshlin Smith's mother, branded the "mastermind" in her child's disappearance, is to be sentenced....
Renowned Kenyan author and academic Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o has died at the age of 87....
The Kenyan author sent shockwaves through African literature by refusing to write in English....
Documents found inside the boat washed ashore in St Vincent and the Grenadines indicate the migrants were from Mali....
Majome says there are many people in prison that shouldn't be....
Egypt's Mohamed Salah was the stand-out player in this season's Premier League - but what do the statistics say about other African stars?...
Former DRC president Joseph Kabila is accused of supporting DRC's M23 insurgency....
It follows growing criticism from Kenyans targeting Tanzania's president over the recent deportation of activists....