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BBC Africa Eye has tracked down the ultra-violent bandit warlords who are raiding villages and abducting schoolchildren across north-western Nigeria.

Officials warn that immigration centres are being overwhelmed by the pace of new arrivals.

Guday Tsegay claims Ethiopia's fourth gold medal of the World Athletics Championships when winning the women's 5000m.

Sergei Lavrov is in Egypt as Moscow counters international anger over the war in Ukraine.

The BBC's Anne Soy reports from the Horn of Africa, where US officials warn of a "hunger catastrophe".

The North African is set to vote on a constitution that seeks to extend President Kais Saied's powers.

South Africa end decades of heartbreak and four previous final failures as they beat host nation Morocco 2-1 to win the Women's Africa Cup of Nations for the first time.

England overcame an improved performance from South Africa to comfortably win the second Twenty20 by six wickets at Worcester.

It is alleged Obinna Obeta was involved in a plot to exploit a Nigerian man and take his kidney.

BBC Sport Africa asks why a sports complex which the late Cameroon midfielder Marc-Vivien Foe started to build has fallen into disrepair despite government pledges.

Why a demand by Sudan's Hausa community to have more land rights led to the death of 100 people.

President Kais Saied may succeed in tightening his grip through a constitutional referendum on 25 July.

Either hosts Morocco or South Africa will become first-time winners of the Women's Africa Cup of Nations when they meet in Saturday's final.

Willie Kimani, his client and driver were abducted, tortured, killed and their bodies dumped in a river.

Nigeria's players play down their training boycott over a bonus row and say it will not affect them in Friday's Women's Africa Cup of Nations third-place play-off against Zambia.

Liberia's Joseph Fahnbulleh says he has vast room for improvement after finishing fourth in the 200m final at the World Athletics Championships.

A selection of the best photos from across Africa and beyond this week.

One of the few doctors serving 1.3 million people may have to leave because he would lose his salary.

Senegal's Sadio Mane is crowned African Footballer of the Year for the second time running at a glittering awards ceremony in Morocco.

Seeing Nigeria's women's team stage a boycott over the non-payment of both bonuses and allowances once again is "embarrassing" says former international Rachael Ayegba.