BBC Africa

Witnesses tell the BBC they were taken home from refugee camps despite the threat from Boko Haram.

Morocco international Adel Taarabt returns to Benfica first-team training after a seven-month spell with the reserves, manager Bruno Lage confirms.

Chelsea have been banned from signings during the next two transfer windows for breaching rules in relation to youth players, Fifa announces.

A government report recommends lifting a four-year ban on hunting elephants.

More and more elections are being held in Africa however analysts dismiss many as being "lawful but illegitimate".

A selection of photographs from around the African continent this week.

Election officials prepare for the poll this Saturday after a one-week delay.

Caf dismisses the Gambia Football Federation's appeal over the eligibility of Togo defender Adewale Oloufade.

Sudanese opposition politician Yasir Arman says the president's 30 year rule will come to an end.

Cameroon's football federation investigates Fifa concerns that some players in the country's top two leagues have not been paid for several months.

Ghana international forward Emmanuel Boateng, 22, joins Chinese Super League club Dalian Yifang from Spanish La Liga side Levante.

Young voters tell us what whey want from their president ahead of elections on 24 February.

Can a big new bridge, train and museum convince Senegal to vote for Macky Sall as president again?

On death row in Malawi, Byson Kaula was nearly executed three times - but the hangman always stopped work before it was his turn.

Photographer Annie Risemberg documents the French bread bakeries that are ubiquitous in Bamako. Mali.

Sadio Mane's house is burgled while the forward playing in Liverpool's Champions League last-16 tie with Bayern Munich on Tuesday.

Boniface Murage's baby daughter was being held in a Kenyan hospital over unpaid medical bills.

The men were convicted of involvement in a car bombing that killed public prosecutor Hisham Barakat.

Kenya coach Sebastien Migne says he has not 'shut the door' on a possible return for the Harambee Stars' all-time record goal-scorer, Dennis Oliech.

Rights group Amnesty demands the release of a poet detained for insulting the Somaliland government.