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17.09.2024 14:50 The authorities say the situation is now under control after gunshots were heard in Bamako.

17.09.2024 14:50 Police believe they were accidentally trapped while playing but an investigation is under way.

17.09.2024 04:50 People remain trapped under the rubble of a seven-storey building in the capital Freetown.

16.09.2024 19:30 A bus transporting people to an Eid-el-Maulud celebration collided with a lorry in Kaduna state.

16.09.2024 14:31 The three states will have new travel documents under their breakaway alliance "in the coming days".

16.09.2024 14:31 The number of female football referees in Africa and worldwide has grown but women like Gbemisola Yusuf remain underrepresented.

16.09.2024 14:31 The state governor says that jihadist fighters may be among those who have fled.

16.09.2024 09:50 BBC Africa Eye focuses on the horrors of the lives of sex workers in the West African state.

16.09.2024 09:50 Survivors recount what happened in Wad al-Nourah in June when at least 100 people died.

15.09.2024 03:11 Thousands of people attended the emotional event in Bukwo, to celebrate the life of Rebecca Cheptegei.

14.09.2024 22:00 The cause of death of the man who stabbed Azali Assoumani is being investigated.

14.09.2024 17:01 South Sudan, the world's youngest country, has not held a national poll since independence in 2011.

14.09.2024 12:10 A war orphan, DePrince moved to the US and ended up performing with Beyoncé.

14.09.2024 06:40 The death, after being set ablaze, of marathon runner Rebecca Chepetegei shocked the world.

14.09.2024 06:40 How using colour to track his bipolar disorder allowed artist Joseph Awuah-Darko to express his emotions.