This is the deadliest known attack since insurgents began operating in Benin at the beginning of the decade.

Tanzanian bananas are among the things hit in the dispute after Malawi stopped them from entering.

Both parties reaffirm their commitment to an "immediate cessation of hostilities" in latest truce deal.

In September 1987, Othello was staged at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg during the apartheid regime in South Africa. The Immorality Act, which banned sexual relationships between white people and non-white people, had been repealed in 1985. But the Shakespeare play was controversial, especially the scene where the black actor, John Kani, kissed the white actress playing his wife. The play was directed by South African born actress Dame Janet Suzman, who looks back on the remarkable story. Produced by Jen Dale.

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(Photo: Joanna Weinberg, left, Richard Haines, rear centre, and John Kani, right, performing Othello. Credit: Ruphin Coudyzer/AP)

Natalie Mageza, from Staffordshire, wins the title after fleeing violence when she was younger.

Donald Trump "highly values Africa and African people", says his African envoy, Massad Boulos.

This is the first time in Ghana's history that a president has removed a chief justice from office.

Despite having the world's fastest-growing Catholic population, odds are against Africa producing the next pontiff.

A court argued Tidjane Thiam forfeited his Ivorian nationality when he became a French citizen in 1987.

An investigation has been launched into allegations against Gertrude Torkornoo, Ghana's third female chief justice.

A lack of cash has forced the UN to halt live-saving aid to 650,000 women and children from May.

A scheme is offering female prisoners in West Africa an opportunity to earn a football coaching badge which could help them get a job after their release.

The plotters, some ex-army officers, hatched the plan in Ivory Coast, the authorities say.

The Archbishop of Abuja in Nigeria speaks to the BBC about how the next pontiff could be selected.

Consumer goods as well as fuel and cocoa are all crossing Ghana’s northern border illegally, and in large volumes.

It's costing the government billions of dollars in lost revenues.

Ed Butler looks at perhaps the biggest illegal trade - gold - Ghana’s number one cash export.

But even as the informal economy, unmonitored and untaxed, continues to grow, some are asking: isn’t there also a specific economic solution to the problem?

In the second of two programmes, based at the northern Ghanaian border with Burkina Faso, he finds out what some are suggesting could be done to change the criminals’ incentives.

Produced and presented by Ed Butler

(Image: Illegal gold mining in northern Ghana)

Members of the Catholic Church's global community of 1.4bn people are remember the late Pope on Easter Monday.

African Catholics, who are becoming more important in the Church, remember a man who spoke for them.

Victoria Uwonkunda, reporter and presenter for BBC News, speaks to Bobi Wine, the Ugandan opposition politician, as he reflects on the personal and political challenges he has faced as well as his determination to run again as President in the next election.

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But the campaign was rocked by violence and for Bobi, countless times in jail.

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Consumer goods, fuel, gold and cocoa are all crossing the border illegally - it's costing the government billions of dollars - so can it be stopped?

Ed Butler travels to the northern Ghanaian border with Burkina Faso, and hears from cocoa smugglers who are operating in the region.

Produced and presented by Ed Butler

(Image: A livestock market in northern Ghana. Traders, including those pictured, told the BBC they believe some of the livestock is contraband)

Ethiopia's answer to The Bachelor has prompted discussions about dating norms in the conservative country.