Yaya Egwaikhide & Majid MohamedBBC NewsOliver AkinfeleyeAfrobeats has swept the world of music like a tsunami - it dominates playlists and its fans cram into huge stadiums to hear...

Former Arsenal footballer Thomas Partey has been charged with five counts of rape and one count of sexual assault. The offences are reported to have taken place between 2021-2022,...

A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond:FETHI BELAID / AFP / GETTY IMAGESAs Tunisians brace for a heatwave, a group of boys...

Khanyisile NgcoboBBC News, JohannesburgGallo Images/Getty ImagesIt was all smiles between South African President Ramaphosa and DA leader John Steenhuisen a year agoSouth Africa's two biggest political parties are in...

Jacob BoswallBBC MonitoringGetty ImagesIt has been a good year for gold. A host of turbulent events in the global economy has driven up prices for the glittery commodity to...

Liberia's former President William Tolbert is set to receive a symbolic reburial on Tuesday, 45 years after he was murdered during a coup and his body believed to be...

With a batting style and frame which has more than a hint of former South Africa skipper Graeme Smith about it, the stocky leftie looks destined for great things.Born...

Wycliffe MuiaBBC News, KampalaRobert KatendeFor more than two decades, Robert Katende has been getting children in Katwe to take chess seriouslyA famous chess club in a slum of Uganda's...

Priya Sippy & Anne OkumuBBC News, London & LilongweJack McBramsA chunk of Suzanna Kathumba's meagre salary goes on school fees, leaving little for other essentialsSuzanna Kathumba, a domestic worker...

Basillioh RukangaBBC News, NairobiAFP/Getty ImagesKenya's crackdown on protesters over the last year has sullied its image as a beacon of democracyKenya has been hit by a recent wave of...

At least eight people have been killed and 400 injured as thousands took to the streets in a day of protests across Kenya against President William Ruto's government. Police...

"Another appalling attack" on a hospital in Sudan has seen more than 40 people killed, many of them children and medics, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO)...