22 May 2013 Last updated at 15:52 GMT President Teodoro Obiang is the world’s longest serving non-royal head of state People in the West African nation of Equatorial Guinea will vote on 26 May in parliamentary and municipal [...]

22 May 2013 Last updated at 16:54 GMT BBC HARDtalk will be in Ethiopia for a special programme with the US Secretary of State John Kerry. He will answer questions put to him by a live audience of young people from all over [...]

24 May 2013 Last updated at 00:19 GMT Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah (l) and Ethiopia’s Emperor Haile Selassie (r) helped found the OAU in 1963 The Organisation of African Unity was formed 50 years ago – on 25 May 1963. [...]

The Afrikaans rapper, Jaak, uses hip-hop to raise the consciousness of his people, whom he calls the ”brown” underclass of Paarl in South Africa, usually referred to as people of mixed heritage. He hopes to give the youth of his [...]

24 May 2013 Last updated at 16:53 GMT Article written by Andrew Harding Africa correspondent More from Andrew Follow Andrew on Twitter Is it a practical joke? A laughable ego trip? A crude piece [...]

24 May 2013 Last updated at 23:24 GMT By Gabriel Gatehouse BBC News, Goma It was a familiar sight at Kanyaruchinya, just a few kilometres north of the city of Goma in eastern [...]

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Togo coach Didier Six has threatened to resign unless the country’s football federation pays him $128,000 he says he is owed in expenses. Six insists he is seeking reimbursement for costs incurred from a scouting trip in Europe [...]

Mali’s Football Federation says it will report national team coach Patrice Carteron to Fifa for breaking his contract to join TP Mazembe. The 42-year-old Frenchman has signed a two-year deal with the DR Congo side despite being [...]

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Peter Mawanga feels that it is high time the world was exposed to the riches of Malawian music. While many of his countrymen play reggae or other musical styles borrowed from elsewhere, he and his band, the Amaravi Movement, make music inspired [...]

Emmanuel Bez Idakula was born in Jos, central Nigeria, into a home filled with gospel music and country and western. His father taught him to play guitar at the age of nine. He tells stories about true-life situations – especially love. [...]

15 May 2013 Last updated at 10:17 GMT Nigeria’s first ladies were urged to reach an out-of-court settlement In our series of letters from African journalists, Sola Odunfa in Lagos writes about the power struggle between [...]

21 May 2013 Last updated at 11:41 GMT In our series of letters from Africa journalists, London-based Ugandan writer Joel Kibazo says he was surprised by the number of Africans he met during a visit to Dubai. Every so often [...]

Leaders from across Africa are gathering ahead of the African Union summit in Ethiopia. The organisation is celebrating its 50th anniversary and the BBC is looking at the changes the continent has experienced in that time. In Ghana – one [...]

Gerard Sekoto is known as the father of contemporary South African art, and his work has been shown around the world. Now his home country is celebrating 100 years since his birth with the exhibition “Song for Sekoto” in Johannesburg. [...]

Yoga classes in Langata Women’s Prison in Nairobi, Kenya, are inspiring both inmates and teacher. The non-profit organization Africa Yoga Project has trained over 100 instructors who also offer free classes in community centres, slums [...]

The Nigerian army says it has destroyed a number of well-equipped camps used by the militant Islamist group, Boko Haram, in the north-east of Nigeria. Senior officer Chris Olukolade said the camps were used to co-ordinate attacks on nearby local [...]

As the Organisation of African Unity celebrates its 50th anniversary, the BBC is looking at the continent’s growing prosperity. South Africa’s economy is the largest and most sophisticated in Africa but labour unrest and aftershocks [...]

The funeral of the Nigerian author Chinua Achebe is due to take place on Thursday in his home town of Ogidi in the east of the country. Chinua Achebe’s books including his best known novel, Things Fall Apart, drew international acclaim [...]

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy have been named in connection with post-election violence in a long-awaited report investigating human rights abuses in the country. The report gave no recommendation for action to be taken [...]

Josephine Mudzingwa Siziba moved to North Shields in Tyneside as a refugee 13 years ago. Although seen as rich by her family in Africa, she and her husband live on the Meadow Well estate, one of the most deprived in Britain. They survive on [...]

22 May 2013 Last updated at 18:47 GMT The wedding took place over four days in the famous resort of Sun City South Africa’s main opposition party has condemned as a cover-up an official probe into the use of a military [...]

22 May 2013 Last updated at 16:07 GMT Ethiopian activist Bogaletch Gebre has won an international prize for her campaign to eradicate female genital mutilation (FGM). She was awarded the King Baudouin Prize in Belgium for [...]

23 May 2013 Last updated at 13:24 GMT The hacker wants prosecutions over the killing of South African miners last year A hacker has attacked a South African police website, downloading the details of whistle-blowers who reported [...]

23 May 2013 Last updated at 17:52 GMT M23 fighters launched a rebellion last May M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have declared a ceasefire for UN chief Ban Ki-moon’s visit to the conflict-hit area, [...]

24 May 2013 Last updated at 01:12 GMT Twisted debris from the suicide attack lay outside the military camp in Agadez Suicide bombers have struck a military camp and a French-run uranium mine in two towns in north-west Niger. A [...]

23 May 2013 Last updated at 16:44 GMT In one coal-rich province, Tete, 60% of land is now earmarked for mining, leaving local people few options for resettlement International mining companies operating in Mozambique are failing [...]

23 May 2013 Last updated at 21:45 GMT Valerie Amos said the refugees were forced to live in terrible conditions and faced chronic food shortages Some 300,000 people have fled resurgent fighting in Sudan’s Darfur region [...]

23 May 2013 Last updated at 21:32 GMT Mourners signed a book of condolence at the funeral Thousands of mourners have paid their last respects to renowned Nigerian author Chinua Achebe in his home town in Anambra state. A host [...]