VIDEO: Chimp culture captured on camera

Researchers capture the social spread of a new type of tool use in a wild population of chimps in Uganda for the first time.

James Oatway, a South African photojournalist, witnessed the killing of a Mozambican man. He tells the BBC's Southern Africa Correspondent Karen Allen how he tried to save the man.

A new online project documents the country's challenges amid the pandemic.

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Dramatic lioness hunt captured on camera
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While out on safari in Ruaha, Southern Tanzania, Sam Stogdale, a private guide from The Luxury Safari Company, came across two lionesses hunting buffalo and snapped some dramatic pictures of the chase, including the buffalo's lucky escape. “It was one ...

A key stronghold of al-Shabab Islamists has been captured by Somali government troops backed by African Union forces, local officials say.

The BBC's Ibrahima Diané returns to his home country to look at the particular problems facing Guinea in its fight against Ebola.

Ngozi Dozie, co-founder of Cafe Neo in Lagos, Nigeria, talks to the BBC about building up his coffee shop business.

South African police brutality caught on camera

The 90-year-old President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, is caught on film falling over in public.