Africa

The UN says it has negotiated the release of 876 children held as suspects by the Nigerian army.

Eritrean officials have committed crimes against humanity since 1991, including enslavement, imprisonment, enforced disappearances, torture, other inhumane acts, persecution, rape and murder, a member of the former United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the country reported to UN Member States.

Kenyan schoolchildren are barred from entering examination rooms with clipboards and geometry set boxes in a bid to curb a big cheating problem.

A selection of the best photos from across Africa this week.

Prince Harry says the experience of helping to move African elephants across Malawi was "amazing".

Nigeria will invest $10bn (£8bn) on developing its oil-rich south in an attempt to end an insurgency by militants, the oil minister says.

Algeria appoint Belgian Georges Leekens as their new national coach, just 16 days before a 2018 World Cup qualifier against Nigeria.

Local footballers in Gabon, the host nation of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations, threaten to go on strike in a row over non-payment of salaries.

The people of Ivory Coast are going to the polls on Sunday to approve or reject a draft constitution which the government says will address the question of identity which have been at the heart of years of unrest.

A South African businessman is trying to spread the entrepreneurial spirit, through a comic book.

A photo of a schoolboy in Ghana goes viral in South Africa, and raises thousands for his village.

The impact of severe El Niño-induced drought on crop production in southern Madagascar, where nearly 850,000 people are acutely food insecure, is likely to persist into 2017 and requires an intensified humanitarian response, the United Nations agriculture agency said today.

The UN says 1.5 million people in southern Madagascar are facing hunger because of a severe drought.

Many people, from all over Africa, have emigrated to the United States and now live across the country.

Thousands civilians have been displaced in the ongoing fighting in South Sudan with some seeking refuge in protection sites across the country. The plight of an 11-year-old boy captures the suffering of many in the country. The BBC's Anne Soy reports.

South Sudan is the world's youngest country and much of its recent history, both before and since independence, has been characterised by violence.

Somali-Americans are tired of seeing themselves portrayed as terrorists. A new film tries to challenge stereotypes.

Sunderland manager David Moyes is sent to the stands as Southampton reach the quarter-finals of the EFL Cup.

With nearly 400,000 children facing starvation in Nigeria, and citizens suffering with little to no protection, security, food or access to clean water, “Nigeria is facing the worst humanitarian crisis on the African continent,” Peter Lundberg, the acting United Nations Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator, warned today.

An alarming rise in hate speech and incitement to violence against certain ethnic groups in South Sudan has prompted the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, to issue a warning that if the community and political leaders at the highest levels do not rein it in, mass atrocities in the country could erupt.