Sarah RainsfordSouthern and Eastern Europe correspondent in CreteFrancesco Tosto/BBCPeople arriving from North Africa are held in Crete before being moved to the Greek mainlandIn the centre of a sweltering,...

Kidnappers in Nigeria have killed at least 35 people they abducted from a village in northern Zamfara state despite ransoms being paid for their release, a local official told...

More than 40 people were killed in an attack by an Islamic State affiliate in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the UN and the military said.Most of them were...

Cameroon's opposition leader Maurice Kamto has been excluded from the list of candidates in the 12 October presidential election.Only 13 of the 83 names submitted to the country's electoral...

Stary MwabaZambia's notorious "black mountains" - huge heaps of mining waste that scar the Copperbelt skyline - are deeply personal to Stary Mwaba, one of the country's leading visual...

A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond:FEISAL OMAR / REUTERSBranches graze the top of this mural in eastern Mogadishu, Somalia, on Tuesday.QUINN...

ReutersA new constitution that has allowed Togo's long-time head of state Faure Gnassingbé to shift to a new role as all-powerful prime minister – and escape the constraint of...

The government has revealed details of its plans to cut foreign aid, with support for children's education and women's health in Africa facing the biggest reductions.The government said in...

Pumza FihlaniBBC News, JohannesburgPumza Fihlani / BBCMark Moodley (L) says that the lack of a consistent power supply endangered his mother's lifeSouth African Mark Moodley believes that installing a...

Basillioh RukangaBBC News, NairobiAFP/Getty ImagesMrenda, being prepared here by a chef in Nairobi, has many more micronutrients than cabbageOnce dismissed as wild weeds and a "poor man's food", indigenous...

AFP via Getty Images.Most people living in Cameroon today hadn't even been born yet when Biya became president in 1982Even before the world's oldest president confirmed that he would...

Khanyisile NgcoboBBC News, JohannesburgGallo via Getty ImagesNhlanhla Mkhwanazi is known for standing up to his political bossesA highly respected police officer has shaken South Africa's government - and won...