BBC Africa

Why Africa's most-populous country is introducing new bank notes weeks before an election.

Women's assistant coach Sinikiwe Mpofu found dead just weeks after her husband, men's fielding coach Shepherd Makunura, passed away.

Edwin Chiloba's mouth was stuffed with socks and tied with a piece of denim, a pathologist says.

Reaction from Cape Town as 19-year-old South Africa batsman Dewald Brevis stars in first match of new SA20 league.

The African Union says efforts to end conflict in northern Ethiopia have moved in the right direction.

DR Congo becomes the latest country to have its preparations thrown into chaos after checks find 25 overage players.

Footage has surfaced online showing people with South African army uniforms setting ablaze corpses.

Sama, which runs Facebook's moderation hub for east Africa, is to stop providing content-review services.

The island will take millions of years to recover from a wave of extinctions, scientists say.

The country's electoral commission says insecurity threatens the nationwide vote due next month.

Gabon's Jaures Kombila can get into almost any position using his amazingly flexible body.

The US rapper had provoked criticism after shooting scenes in the country's presidential palace.

Former South Africa captain and SA20 commissioner Graeme Smith believes the country's new T20 competition can help the Test team rediscover former glories.

The authorities are searching for the 32 victims who it is believed are being held in a forest.

Fresh accusations emerge in South Africa after a BBC series exposed alleged abuse at UK schools.

Residents of south-eastern Nigeria live in fear as a separatist rebellion has upended daily life.

Four people have now been detained after Edwin Chiloba's body was found dumped in a metal box.

Adriaan Vlok gave police orders to kill a cleric and later washed his feet to seek redemption.

President Macky Sall declares three days of mourning following a deadly collision between two buses.

Mali's junta leader pardoned the soldiers after a court convicted them of undermining state security.