Security forces in Borno State in Nigeria are searching for dozens of teenage girls abducted by suspected members of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram.
Mystery surrounds the fate of more than 100 teenage girls abducted from a school in the remote north-east of Nigeria.
The UN Security Council hears a proposal to create a medal for bravery in UN peacekeeping, to be named after a Senegalese soldier who saved lives during the Rwandan genocide.
The girlfriend of Oscar Pistorius was shot in quick succession as she fell down, a forensics expert has told the South African athlete's murder trial.
The Belgian director of Africa's oldest national park - Virunga in the Democratic Republic of Congo - is shot and wounded in an ambush.
South Africa coach Gordon Igesund will on Thursday learn the findings of the inquiry into allegations he incited players to strike.
Chad has withdrawn all its peacekeepers from the Central African Republic, an official confirms, after accusations they sided with Muslim rebels.
A forensics expert contradicts police ballistics testimony by telling the trial of Oscar Pistorius that his girlfriend was shot in quick succession.
Communities in sub-Saharan Africa are being "hurt" by high fees charged by money transfer operators, charity Comic Relief says.
A life coach who defrauded Nigeria's Peter Odemwingie and six other clients out of more than £80,000 is spared jail.
Somali refugee hildren's letters of hope to homeless Syrians
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