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Officials accompany Robert Mugabe's coffin in Harare

Mugabe honoured at state funeral in Zimbabwe

Africa / 14 Sep

Several construction projects launched in recent years with the help of international funding had to be temporarily suspended due to security threats

Protest in Mali over 'obstacle course' roads

News Lens / 11 Sep

It is the fourth trip to the continent for Pope Francis during his pontificate

Pope Francis begins three-nation visit to Africa

Ahmad al-Rabie and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo sign the agreement in Khartoum

Sudan army, civilians seal interim power-sharing deal

Protestors celebrate on the streets of Khartoum in Sudan

Sudan protesters hail landmark deal with generals

The man's body fell from the landing gear of a Kenya Airways plane

Stowaway who fell from plane may have worked at airport

Prime Minister Ahmed Abiy said regional officials were in a meeting when the coup attempt occurred

Senior Ethiopian officials killed in coup attempt

Children in DRC are key to spreading the word back in their homes and villages

Education key to tackling ebola in DRC

Omar al-Bashir was ousted in April after 30 years of autocratic rule

Ousted Sudanese leader to face trial over corruption

Medical staff of an Ebola Treatment Unit in western Uganda prepare for work

Second Ebola patient dies in Uganda

More than 2,000 cases have been recorded in Democratic Republic of Congo

WHO to hold emergency meeting on Ebola in East Africa

There was no immediate claim of responsibility but the massacre in Mali (Pic: Google Maps)

Nearly 100 killed in central Mali village massacre

Gay rights organisations asked the court to scrap two sections of the penal code that criminalise homosexuality

Kenya court refuses to decriminalise homosexuality

Sudan's military seek to build on a political breakthrough overshadowed by deadly shootings the US blamed on generals

Sudan military agrees three-year transition period

The pair disappeared in the remote Pendjari National Park

Fears for French tourists as body of Benin guide found

Residents brave the floods in Mazive, southern Mozambique

38 killed in Mozambique after second cyclone

Mr Negasso was president between 1995 and 2001

Former Ethiopian president Negasso Gidada dead at 75

Chinese firms were involved in building the Addis Ababa-Adama Expressway in Tulu Dimtu

Ethiopia and the Chinese dream in Africa

The incident happened during an Easter procession in Gombe, Nigeria (Pic: Google Maps)

10 dead in Nigeria as policeman rams car into crowd

Gunmen stormed the Kajuru Castle Resort, 60 kilometres southeast of Kaduna City

British aid worker among two shot dead in Nigeria

At least 29 people with injuries were taken to hospital for treatment

13 dead in South Africa after church wall collapses

The chief of the military council, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has vowed to "uproot" Bashir's regime.

What Sudanese protesters want in 'revolution'

News Lens / 15 Apr

Omar al-Bashir has been in power for three decades

Sudan's Bashir detained, military council takes over

Tens of thousands of people have been displaced in Mozambique

Three people accused of diverting Mozambique aid

Devastation in Mozambique after the cyclone

Challenges to aid after SE Africa cyclone devastation

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