BBC Africa

Rupert Wingfield-Hayes takes a look at how the athletes' village hopes to mitigate the risk of Covid.

As Ethiopians prepare to go to the polls, false and misleading content has been spreading online.

Twenty years on from the "War on Terror", is it the end of big military deployments to warzones?

PM Abiy Ahmed swept to power after mass protests, but his Oromo community still feel like outsiders.

Nic Dlamini is set to be the first black South African to compete in cycling's Tour de France as he is named on Team Qhubeka Assos.

Alieu Kosiah is the first Liberian to be convicted for acts committed during the country's civil war.

During the late Kenneth Kaunda's time as the first president of Zambia his love of football led to the national team being dubbed the 'KK11'.

In their lawsuit, a group of men say they were forced to work on cocoa firms in Ivory Coast.

Why the stakes are so high in the nation's first attempt at free and fair elections.

A selection of the week's best photos of Africans from across the continent and elsewhere.

Kaunda, 97, was one of the last of the generation of African leaders who fought colonialism.

Nigeria's Boko Haram confirms that its leader Abubakar Shekau has been killed.

The first president of an independent Zambia, who became one of Africa's elder statesmen, dies at 97.

Ghanaian sports medicine expert Dr Prince Pamb is confident a collapse like Christian Eriksen's could be dealt with similarly at the Africa Cup of Nations.

Rivers United boss Stanley Eguma, the longest serving coach in the Nigerian Professional Football League, has been abducted.

Laurent Gbagbo was taken to the ICC in 2011 on charges of crimes against humanity.

Famine conditions and insecurity in Tigray as well as upcoming elections affect the future of Ethiopia.

People's lives in northern Ethiopia are in tatters as they deal with famine in the ruins of a war zone.

The "rare and extraordinary" gem weighs 1,098 carats and was unveiled by diamond firm, Debswana.

Health agencies and medics tells the BBC of a growing crisis facing low-income African nations.