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.

Markus Jooste dies one day after being ordered to pay a $25m fine for accounting fraud in South Africa.

Uganda’s veteran leader Yoweri Museveni has appointed his son to head the country’s defence forces, the East African nation’s government said, capping a dizzying rise for Muhoozi Kainerugaba.

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.

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.

With the second elections of the year in Africa, due in Senegal on Sunday, already troubled – after a disputed one in the Comoros in January – democracy on the continent is like “a ship in troubled waters”, according to the AU.

Unidentified youths shot dead 15 people in South Sudan’s Pibor region, including its commissioner, a senior official said on Wednesday, in the latest flare-up of violence in the country.

He tells the BBC he won’t apologise for attempting to delay the vote, a move that led to deadly protests.

Western countries may not believe Russian President Vladimir Putin secured 87.8% of the vote from a record turnout of 77.5%, but these aren’t strange numbers for African countries. This week, those countries congratulated Putin on his achievement, vowing their continued friendship with Russia.

Macky Sall refuses to apologise for the deaths that followed the decision to postpone elections last month.

BBC teams report from the devastated capital and hear accounts of rapes and street executions from refugees.

Women’s rights groups breathed a sigh of relief in Gambia on Monday when its Parliament delayed an attempt to reintroduce female genital mutilation.

Fulham first team coach Luis Boa Morte will leave his role with the Premier League side at the end of the season to take charge of Guinea-Bissau.

A bus carrying students from a top Kenyan university collided with a truck on a busy highway after skidding in heavy rain, killing 11 of them and seriously injuring 42, police said.

Kenya has chosen opposition leader Raila Odinga to challenge for the African Union Commission chairperson’s job, which will be vacant in February next year.

Nigeria has a mass kidnapping problem, and March has been an especially horrific month