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Kehinde Wiley's Barack Obama painting is the first official US presidential portrait by a black artist.

Journalist Peter Tah describes how life in the Cameroon city of Bamenda has ground to a halt due to the separatist conflict.

It's common for African migrants to be returned back to their native country when they die, but this decision is a hard one if your entire family is based in the UK.

Plans to redistribute land from white farmers to landless black people are raising deep feelings. Here's why.

Lusaka-based artist Stary Mwaba says that art has an important role to play in preserving history.

The former trader convicted of fraud is taken to Heathrow Airport despite a campaign to stop deportation.

Mali coach Mohammed Saloum Houssein has named six foreign-based players in his squad for the Women's Africa Cup of Nations finals in Ghana.

Republic of Ireland boss Martin O'Neill will not rush Michael Obafemi into making a decision on his international future.

Lifting of the arms ban, asset freeze and travel restrictions follows a historic deal with Ethiopia.

Kenya's Football Federation (FKF) appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in a late bid to reverse their exclusion from the Women's Africa Cup of Nations.

Mountain gorilla: Conservation efforts appear to be paying off for large, charismatic animals.

The shortlist for BBC African Footballer of the Year 2018 will be revealed on Saturday 17 November.

Equatorial Guinea captain Genoveva Anonman Nze admits it will be tough at the Women's Nations Cup because of the limited time they had to prepare.

The UK refuses the pair visas to attend an awards ceremony for their risky work protecting elephants.

Might this living laboratory hold the key to controlling malaria and other conditions?

The Pink Legacy diamond sold for 50.3m Swiss francs ($50m), a world record price per carat.

Mnyaka Sururu Mboro is looking for the skull of a rebel Tanzanian chief who was executed by German colonisers.

The Eritrean family have just arrived in Canada from a refugee camp in Sudan.

Anglophone TV editor Mimi Mefo Takambo had shared reports that soldiers killed a US missionary.

A botched update to network hardware meant an African ISP wrongly took over Google net addresses.