Thirty years after Nelson Mandela's election and apartheid's end, South Africans reflect on democracy.
Read MoreBBC websites and radio are blocked for two weeks over a Human Rights Watch report on alleged mass killings.
Read MoreA selection of the week's best photos from across the continent and beyond.
Read MoreSouth Africa's former president hits out at corruption within the governing party.
Read MoreThe policing minister appeared to ask an audience member if Rwanda and Congo were different countries.
Read MoreFive migrants, including a child, were killed in a crush on board a boat crossing the Channel.
Read MoreHow the country's former president is thwarting attempts to bar him from contesting the polls.
Read MoreRwanda is gearing up to welcome deported asylum seekers now the landmark UK bill has passed.
Read MoreGhanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama gives a well-loved London landmark a bold pink makeover.
Read MorePastor Chris Oyakhilome is targeting the new malaria vaccines as African countries start their rollout.
Read MoreEast Africa is being pounded by unusually heavy rains linked to a combination of global weather events.
Read MoreSlam poet Emi Mahmoud wants the world not to forget Sudan, one year into its civil war.
Read MoreThe bus was travelling to Nairobi when it was swept off the road.
Read MoreRuss Cook, nicknamed "Hardest Geezer", has finished his challenge of running the length of Africa.
Read MoreThe BBC's Victoria Uwonkunda speaks to survivors of the Rwanda genocide violence 30 years after she fled.
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