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24.03.2024 19:50 Seven million people are casting their vote in Senegal as they choose their new president.

24.03.2024 10:11 Gunmen rode through the school in Kuriga in north-western Nigeria seizing children as young as eight.

24.03.2024 10:11 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.

24.03.2024 05:00 The election was due last month but the outgoing president postponed it, triggering deadly protests.

23.03.2024 09:11 Record levels of crime are driving more and more people to buy firearms to protect themselves.

22.03.2024 18:50 Those who died were believed to be being smuggled through the desert to reach the Mediterranean coast.

22.03.2024 14:30 President Museveni has denied speculation that he is grooming his son as his successor.

22.03.2024 14:30 Markus Jooste dies one day after being ordered to pay a $25m fine for accounting fraud in South Africa.

22.03.2024 09:00 Their rivalry underpins a big divide in the nation, regarded as a beacon of West African democracy.

22.03.2024 03:30 Federal prosecutors accuse Rwandan-born Eric Nshimiye of concealing his involvement in mass murder.

22.03.2024 03:30 A selection of the best photos from across the African continent this week.

21.03.2024 18:20 Police say Amal Umar gave an officer 250,000 naira to have her impounded car released.

21.03.2024 13:00 The three-month prohibition is an attempt to cut government spending amid a cost-of-living crisis.

21.03.2024 13:00 The president is under pressure from Ghanaians who want him to sign the bill, and from those who condemn it.

21.03.2024 13:00 Chocolate prices rise in the run up to Easter after high temperatures curb cocoa crops in West Africa.