19 June 2013 Last updated at 10:31 GMT Finance Minister Kosti Manibe is under investigation South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has sacked two high-ranking government ministers embroiled in a multi-million dollar financial [...]

19 June 2013 Last updated at 15:33 GMT Cycling has been a popular sport in DR Congo despite years of instability The first cycling tour of the Democratic Republic of Congo has begun in the west of the country in Matadi, a port [...]

19 June 2013 Last updated at 11:49 GMT Gunmen have killed 48 people in an attack on a village in Nigeria’s Zamfara state, an official says. They arrived before dawn riding motorbikes, a state spokesman said. They then [...]

19 June 2013 Last updated at 11:49 GMT Gunmen have killed 48 people in an attack on a village in Nigeria’s Zamfara state, an official says. They arrived before dawn riding motorbikes, a state spokesman said. They then [...]

19 June 2013 Last updated at 13:15 GMT The security forces arrived with minutes of the vehicle exploding at the UN office At least 12 people, including three foreigners, have been killed in an assault by militant Islamists on [...]

18 June 2013 Last updated at 14:49 GMT The Gulf of Guinea “has not received the attention that was brought to Somalia,” the reports says Piracy off the coast of West Africa has now overtaken Somali piracy, a report [...]

18 June 2013 Last updated at 15:07 GMT William Ruto insists he is innocent of the charges The International Criminal Court (ICC) has ruled Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto only needs to be “physically present” [...]

The president of the Ethiopia Football Federation, Sahilu Gebremariam, has admitted his side used a suspended player in a 2014 World Cup qualifier. If Ethiopia lose the three points from their win over Botswana on 8 June it means South [...]

The president of the Ethiopia Football Federation, Sahilu Gebremariam, has admitted his side used a suspended player in a 2014 World Cup qualifier. If Ethiopia lose the three points from their win over Botswana on 8 June it means South [...]

The president of the Ethiopia Football Federation, Sahilu Gebremariam, has admitted his side used a suspended player in a 2014 World Cup qualifier. If Ethiopia lose the three points from their win over Botswana on 8 June it means South [...]

19 June 2013 Last updated at 00:23 GMT Young vigilantes in Maiduguri have been targeting suspected militants Suspected Islamist militants in north-east Nigeria have killed at least nine school children, the second targeted attack [...]

18 June 2013 Last updated at 16:20 GMT Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. General David Sejusa: “All options are open… [...]

18 June 2013 Last updated at 20:47 GMT Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. President Francois Hollande said the deal would allow [...]

Malawi struggled to a 1-1 draw against Zimbabwe’s second-string side in an international friendly warm-up ahead of the World Cup qualifiers in June. The Flames took the lead through striker Robin Ngalande – the only foreign [...]

Chelsea’s John Mikel Obi has confirmed that he will join up with the Nigeria squad for June’s World Cup qualifiers and the Confederations Cup in Brazil. Mikel had been a major doubt due to club commitments and visa problems. [...]

26 May 2013 Last updated at 09:07 GMT The president of Niger (R) was speaking after talks with the head of French nuclear company Areva Niger President Mahamadou Issoufou has said that suicide bombers who attacked two targets [...]

26 May 2013 Last updated at 16:43 GMT At least six people have been killed in an attack by Somali militants on police posts over the Kenyan border, the Kenyan police have said. At least two of the victims of the attack on the [...]

26 May 2013 Last updated at 20:05 GMT Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Footage shows Michael Adebolajo in court in Kenya in 2010 [...]

25 May 2013 Last updated at 21:30 GMT Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff (L) wants to boost trade with Africa Brazil has announced that it will cancel or restructure almost $900m (£600m) worth of debt with Africa. Oil- [...]

25 May 2013 Last updated at 11:30 GMT To mark the 50th anniversary of the African Union – formerly the Organisation of African Unity, BBC World Service listeners suggested the African songs that summed up the continent [...]

Cameroon football descended into chaos on Saturday when the government suspended elections at the football federation (Fecafoot). The poll was scrapped “for security reasons”, according to the National Olympics and Sports [...]

Heads of state from across Africa are in Addis Ababa to mark the 50th anniversary of the African Union. In 1963, leaders met in the Ethiopian capital to establish a body, then known as the Organisation of African Unity, to discuss common defence, [...]

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 [...]