VIDEO: Video shows Kenya university battle

The number of people killed in an attack by al-Shabab Islamist militants on a university in north-eastern Kenya has risen to 147, government officials say.

Amateur video has emerged showing the first pictures of the site in Mali where an Air Algerie flight AH5017 passenger jet crashed on Thursday.

Hit maker wa ‘Kwaajili yako’ Hussein Rashid aka Hussein Machozi ameachia video na wimbo mpya ikiwa ni zaidi ya wiki moja imepita toka atawale vichwa vya habari katika vyombo vingi vya habari vya Kenya na baadae kuhamia Tanzania. Habari hizo zilizomuhusu nyota huyo ambaye kwa sasa anafanya muziki wake nchini Kenya zilidai kuwa alifumaniwa na […]

Boko Haram releases a video purporting to show about 100 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls as its leader demands a prisoner exchange.

Will Ross reports from the outside the central mosque in Kano, Nigeria's second city, a day after it was attacked by suspected militant Islamists.

A video is released showing the purported leader of Nigeria's Islamist group Boko Haram dismissing the army's allegations he is dead.

Spanish police have released video showing hundreds of migrants illegally crossing into Spain's North African enclave of Melilla.

More than 180 Nigerian schoolgirls remain missing after being snatched from their classroom last week.

TV and internet satire shows in Africa are becoming increasingly popular, as the BBC's Kathy Harcombe reports.