The comedy legend appeared in a viral video a few days ago begging for financial help to undergo a kidney transplant in India - and more
Seven million people are casting their vote in Senegal as they choose their new president.
Gunmen rode through the school in Kuriga in north-western Nigeria seizing children as young as eight.
The election was due last month but the outgoing president postponed it, triggering deadly protests.
Record levels of crime are driving more and more people to buy firearms to protect themselves.
Those who died were believed to be being smuggled through the desert to reach the Mediterranean coast.
Nathan Doualla is cleared to play in Cameroon's Elite League play-offs without revealing how the international midfielder proved his identity amid age cheating allegations.
President Museveni has denied speculation that he is grooming his son as his successor.
Markus Jooste dies one day after being ordered to pay a $25m fine for accounting fraud in South Africa.
Their rivalry underpins a big divide in the nation, regarded as a beacon of West African democracy.
Federal prosecutors accuse Rwandan-born Eric Nshimiye of concealing his involvement in mass murder.
A selection of the best photos from across the African continent this week.
Police say Amal Umar gave an officer 250,000 naira (£137; $175) to have her impounded car released.
The president is under pressure from Ghanaians who want him to sign the bill, and from those who condemn it.
The travel ban is an attempt to cut government spending amid an ongoing cost-of-living crisis.
Chocolate prices rise in the run up to Easter after high temperatures curb cocoa crops in West Africa.
How one man is secretly helping families pay kidnappers to release their relatives.
Customers who don't return money they withdrew face prosecution, an Ethiopian bank chief tells the BBC.
He tells the BBC he won't apologise for attempting to delay the vote, a move that led to deadly protests.
Macky Sall refuses to apologise for the deaths that followed the decision to postpone elections last month.
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