Vanessa Nakate was the only one cropped out of a photo with four white climate activists at Davos.

Comoros and Malmo midfielder Fouad Bachirou credits his determination to succeed to advice and inspiration from France great Claude Makelele.

Zeinab is the only survivor of the al-Shabab attack on the office of the Mogadishu mayor in July 2019.

"Unprecedented" swarms of desert locusts, the worst in decades, are devouring crops in East Africa.

Desert locust swarms which are devouring crops in East Africa are forcing farmers into desperate measures.

The BBC's Africa editor Fergal Keane will work in a new role for the corporation.

South African mining mogul Patrice Motsepe tells the US president that the continent supports him.

Former Cameroon captain Stephane Mbia joins Shanghai Shenhua from Chinese Super League rivals Wuhan Zall.

Ordinary Congolese hoped Felix Tshisekedi would transform their lives when he became president.

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

Felix Tshisekedi looks back at his first year in power in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Seventeen big cats rescued from Guatemalan circuses have moved to a South African wildlife sanctuary.