Russell Cook previously ran the entire length of Africa in 352 days.

South Africa's parliament is due to choose the president at its first session since last month's poll.

The search continues for 140 people who are still missing, according to the International Organization for Migration.

The plane was flying in bad weather when it disappeared from airport radars on Monday.

Dozens of gunmen on motorbikes stormed a village in the Kankara area on Sunday, the BBC has been told.

Some students at Teesside University are being seriously affected by the Nigerian currency crisis.

Saulos Chilima and nine others were on board of a military plane that went off the radar on Monday morning.

The ANC's loss of a majority in South Africa mirrors that of other liberation parties on the continent.

In 2014, Boko Haram militants drove into Gwoza in north-east Nigeria and began an assault that would leave hundreds of people dead.

Ruoyah, who was just 14, hid in her house for eight hours under continuous fire.

She says when she finally opened the door to leave her house she says: "There were corpses everywhere, we even saw the corpse of our neighbour in our front door."

Ruoyah managed to escape to Cameroon, but her sister was kidnapped by Boko Haram militants.

She was taken into the Sambisa forest where she was forced to marry a militant and starved.

A few months later, Boko Haram's leader unilaterally declared that Gwoza was a caliphate.

Ruoyah now lives in an internally displaced persons camp, she speaks to Anoushka Mutanda-Dougherty.

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