Thirty years from now the population of Nigeria will have doubled. How can Lagos - Africa's largest city - cope with its spiralling numbers?

Ghana will miss the 2018 African Nations Championship (CHAN) finals in Kenya after a 2-1 defeat to Burkina Faso in their final qualifier in Kumasi.

An interim court injunction temporarily stops Isha Johansen from governing as President of the Sierra Leone Football Association.

Meet the team bringing the BBC to tens of millions of Pidgin speakers in West and Central Africa.

Robert Mugabe's wife is back in Zimbabwe despite allegations of an assault at a Johannesburg hotel.

The BBC's Alex Duval Smith reports on how the return of conflict is redefining life in northern Mali.