Generation X: Yellow fever 'global emergency' warning

Yellow fever 'global emergency' warning

Someone receiving a yellow fever vaccine - archive shot

Scientists in the US warn that the shortage of yellow fever vaccines could spark a health security crisis as the outbreak in Angola spreads.

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LIVE Africa Live: 'Special leave' proposed for SA race row judge, Kenya camp closure threat criticised

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Kenya bootleg bottled water companies shut over contamination

Nigerian civilians who fled from Boko Haram in a camp near Maiduguri, Nigeria

Nigeria tycoon helps Boko Haram victims

Africa's richest man, Nigerian business tycoon Aliko Dangote, pledges $10m to help families affected by Boko Haram's seven-year insurgency.

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Africa Live: 'Special leave' proposed for SA race row judge, Kenya camp closure threat criticised

'Special leave' proposed for South Africa judge in race row over Facebook comments, UN criticises Kenyan decision to shut refugee camps and more updates.

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Abducted Ethiopian children 'freed'

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Satirical group arrested in Egypt

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From the sectionMiddle East

SA row over judge's race rape comments

9 May 2016
From the sectionAfrica

Landslides kill dozens in Rwanda

9 May 2016
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SPORT Cameroonian women's keeper dies aged 26

9 May 2016
From the sectionFootball

African football

SPORT Gaber aims to emulate Salah and Elneny

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SPORT Coachless Nigeria chase European players

9 May 2016
From the sectionFootball

Our reporters

Security guards patrol past the EMATUM fishing fleet docked in Maputo, Mozambique, May 3, 2016.

Lerato Mbele: Is there something fishy about Mozambique's debt?

6 May 2016
From the sectionAfrica

South African President Jacob Zuma give his state of the nation address in Cape Town, South Africa, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016

Karen Allen: Could the military turn on South Africa's president?

6 May 2016
From the sectionAfrica

A Fulani herdsman carrying a calf on his shoulder in Kano, northern Nigeria.

Naziru Mikailu: Behind Nigeria's Fulani violence

5 May 2016
From the sectionAfrica

Features & Analysis

A superhero in Lagos

Nigerians wonder if Captain America could sort them out

10 May 2016

A soldiers stands next to a school destroyed by Boko Haram in Borno State, Nigeria

After Boko Haram

How to rebuild Nigerian region left in ruins

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Beverley Nambozo reading with her daughter Zion, aged seven, in Kampala, Uganda

Unaffordable luxury

Would you save a month’s salary to buy a book?

9 May 2016
From the sectionAfrica

A women uses a mobile phone to take pictures of a burning school in Mashau Dolly village, Limpopo province, South Africa - Thursday 5 May 2016

Africa's week in pictures

Hot flames, backstage glamour and Asa hits Lagos

6 May 2016
From the sectionAfrica

Local residents walk near collapsed building - 1 May

Shaky foundations

And other reasons why buildings collapse in Africa

5 May 2016
From the sectionAfrica

An elephant at Mwaluganje Elephant Sanctuary

Don't pooh-pooh it

Making paper from elephant dung

5 May 2016
From the sectionBusiness

Programmes

Live: World Service for Africa

8 May 2016

Focus on Africa

8 May 2016

Africa Today Podcast

8 May 2016

Newsday

8 May 2016

BBC Minute

8 May 2016

Letter from Africa

A foreign national who has fled his home in Zambia - April 2016

Farai Sevenzo: Ritual killing riots

Anger, fear and "Afrophobia" stalk Zambia

27 April 2016
From the sectionAfrica

Nigerian footballer Ngozi Okobi pictured in 2013

Adaobi Nwaubani: Uneven playing field

20 April 2016
From the sectionAfrica

Elizabeth Ohene: Ghana's exam cheats

18 April 2016
From the sectionAfrica

A woman speaks during community leaders meeting in Nigeria's Adamawa state

Adaobi Nwaubani: Legacy of hate

31 March 2016
From the sectionAfrica

Tuesday, 10 May 2016