Wigs and beauty contests are big business in Ivory Coast, but the industry is facing change.

A Wraysbury cafe owner says he wants to give back by passing his culinary skills to young people in Africa.

Stephen Sarkodie is 90 minutes away from his dream of playing Wembley coming true.

Some African countries got privileged access to US markets, but the future of that deal is uncertain.

Teams from across the continent, created to boost the health of older women, face off in a tournament.

The lack of progress in the case of an alleged rape of a seven-year-old has sparked angry protests.

There are "horrific videos" of "armed men executing civilians in cold blood", the UN's Volker Türk says.

The hunters were on their way home when they were stopped by vigilantes in an attack that shocked Nigeria.

DR Congo hopes that US involvement in its minerals sector would help deter Rwandan-backed rebels.

The groups, including the UN refugee agency, are accused of trying to change Libya's "demographic composition".

A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond.

Rhinos are at extreme risk of extinction because of poaching and habitat loss. The work of conservationists has made sure that their numbers have continued to rise, but poaching is still a major threat to their existence. Most of the global rhino population lives in South Africa, where the government has taken big steps to prevent the killings, but recent data shows criminal poachers are still targeting the animal

So scientists are getting experimental with how to protect them!

We hear from the BBC Africa’s Ayanda Charlie who has speaking to scientists in South Africa coming up with ways to prevent poaching, including using radioactive material in horns as a deterrent.

Plus, we get the story behind why there’s videos of rhinos hanging upside down from helicopters. Riley Farrell from BBC Future tells us about how choppers are being used in rhino conservation.

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“A secret society of murderers with a king for a ringleader”.

In 1885 King Leopold of Belgium; an awkward, ruthless, selfish man, was recognised as the sovereign of the Congo. Long determined to carve out his very own private colonial domain, he had alighted upon the Congo - Africa’s vast and unplundered interior. With the help of the explorer Henry Morton Stanley, who had found a way to circumnavigate the Congo’s formerly insurmountable rapids, he concocted a cunning scheme to legally make it his own, while casting himself as a civilising saviour. Yet, despite his ostensibly philanthropic motivations, Leopold’s goal was always profit. More specifically, ivory, and later rubber, and before long a thriving hub of industry had been established in the Congo, bustling with soldiers, traders and missionaries. Meanwhile and most significantly, tens of thousands of Congolese people were being beaten, coerced and essentially enslaved into harvesting and carrying the riches of their land for their European oppressors. Their treatment was barbaric, the conditions in which they were made to live grotesque, and their suffering unimaginable. It was there, in King Leopold's Congo, that for years some of the worst violations of human life in all of human history were perpetrated. A terrible, secret heart of darkness, Until, at last, a young shipping clerk in Antwerp stumbled across something that would change the course of history forever...

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Producer: Theo Young-Smith Assistant Producer: Tabby Syrett Editor: Jack Meek Executive Producers: Jack Davenport + Tony Pastor

Only Chinese goods are facing higher US tariffs than exports from Lesotho, which will be charged at 50%.

Samir Shegwara was arrested after the BBC reported the existence of evidence linking Libya with the bombing.

The African Development Bank president tells the BBC how poverty shaped his world view.

Protesters in Zambia call for a change in the law after heinous child rape reports.

The African Development Bank president tells the BBC how poverty shaped his world views.

The pro-business DA rejects the budget leaving the ANC to rely on other parties to get it passed in parliament.

Zambia withdraw four US-based players for an upcoming tournament in China because of "travel measures" introduced by Donald Trump's administration.