Opposition candidate Peter Mutharika is declared the winner of Malawi's disputed presidential election in a vote a rival says was rigged.

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A female freelance journalist working for the satellite news network al-Jazeera in Egypt is under arrest, the interior ministry says.

Monaco's Prince Albert II and his South African wife Princess Charlene have announced that they are expecting their first child.

A northern Nigerian traditional leader, the emir of Gwoza, is shot dead after his convoy comes under from suspected Boko Haram militants.

The BBC's Quentin Sommerville found illegal immigrants being held in squalor in Libya, after they were captured trying to make the crossing to Europe.

A legal battle over the release of Malawi's electoral results is continuing at the High Court in the country's largest city Blantyre. Nomsa Maseko reports from Malawi.

At least two people are killed in a second day of violent protests in the Central African Republic's capital Bangui, military officials say.

Manufacturers of products using "conflict minerals" from countries such as DR Congo must submit a plan to US regulators to deal with the problem.

Stephen Constantine to take charge of Rwanda for the first time in one of 13 Nations Cup qualifiers this weekend.

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Daniel Wani, the husband of Meriam Ibrahim who has been sentenced to death for alleged apostasy in Sudan, has been speaking to the BBC about the injustice he feels as his wife gives birth in prison and the effect on their 20-month-old son

The husband of a woman on death row in Sudan for abandoning her religious faith tells the BBC about seeing their new baby and his hopes for an appeal.

Nigeria international defender Kenneth Omeruo is determined to break into Chelsea's first-team after signing a new two-year contract.

Spain says it has arrested six men in its north African enclave of Melilla on suspicion of recruiting militants to fight in Libya and Mali.

The numbers of migrants reaching Europe in the first five months of 2014 has risen sharply, the BBC has learned, reaching as many as 60,000.

A woman who fears her daughters will be subjected to female genital mutilation will not be deported for at least another day, family friends say.

Ghana mourns a designer who took Africa to haute couture