Everton striker Oumar Niasse joins Cardiff City on loan until the end of the season, with an option to make the move permanent.
Martin O'Neill makes Leicester defender Yohan Benalouane his first signing since becoming Nottingham Forest manager.
Ghanaian undercover reporter Anas Aremeyaw Anas says his team face daily death threats.
Coding Girls is giving young girls in Nigeria the chance to get into what is a male-dominated sector.
Egypt is the first Arab country to authorise the sale of flibanserin - but how well is it going down?
A selection of photographs from around the African continent this week.
Kirk Woodman was kidnapped on Tuesday by gunmen from a mine in the northern part of the country.
Ronald Ngeno was inside the DusitD2 business complex in Nairobi when the terror attack started.
Former VP Atiku Abubakar is the main rival to President Muhammadu Buhari in upcoming elections in Nigeria.
At least 21 people were killed when al-Shabab militants stormed the luxury Nairobi hotel complex.
Turkish giants Galatasaray are interested in a deal for Swansea City striker Wilfried Bony.
Undercover journalist Ahmed Hussein-Suale worked on several reports that were broadcast by the BBC.
Mali's former Liverpool and Juventus star Momo Sissoko returns to play in France six years after leaving Paris Saint-Germain.
Victims of the siege at the hotel complex include a 9/11 survivor, a YouTuber and two inseparable friends.
We spend a day with Joy as he shows us what it's like being 17 in Kampala.
Laurent Gbagbo will remain in custody in The Hague after prosecutors appealed against his release.
Children at one squalid home seen by the BBC said they had been beaten and neglected by their carers.
Of 124 coffees in the world, we only drink two, but we need to protect all of them, say scientists.
The young people who make a living from taking people for horse rides on Nigeria's beaches.
Take a look at the evidence raised by some who doubt the results of the historic presidential poll.
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