BBC World Service - Focus on Africa

Deadly wildfires ravage Algeria

Algerian government says six people have died in wildfires as heatwave continues

Kenya denies hosting seven American aid workers from the DRC at a US Ebola facility

Nelson Mandela International Day marked amid anti-migrant sentiment in South Africa

Kenyan man, Takid, and his two wives Cecilia and Mariam speak on their polygamous union

Sierra Leone's ex-President Ernest Bai Koroma was facing treason charge over coup attempt

Nigeria state officials want the UN to probe abductions of teachers and school children

Sudan’s paramilitary chief, Hemedti, sentenced to death over war crimes in West Darfur

BBC Africa Eye speaks to the wife of Tanzania’s Tundu Lissu who is facing treason charges

Harvard Medical School says about one-third of women experience alopecia

Nigeria orders investigation of global technology firms over unlawful use of news content