After seven years of construction, Algeria has inaugurated the largest mosque in Africa. The Great Mosque of Algiers (or the Djamaa El-Djazair) is also the third-largest in the world, eclipsed ...

On Wednesday, a boy attempts to outrun his opponents on a sandy football pitch in Ivory Coast's largest city, Abidjan.

Algeria has built one of the largest mosques the world has ever seen ... The BBC's Fergal Keane returns to South Africa to follow up on a woman's story that stuck with him for over 30 years.

Inside, some 2,000 men set their prayer mats 1.5 metres apart while 3,000 others spread out into the courtyard of West Africa's largest mosque. "We are being careful but to be honest we cannot ...