BBC World Service - Focus on Africa

'My journey with postpartum psychosis'

Postpartum psychosis is a rare but severe mental health condition

How Africa loved Dolly Parton and a conversation with a South African band she sang with

US calls on the UN Security Council to extend Darfur’s arms embargo to the rest of Sudan

Somali pirates seize tankers in fresh attacks which experts say threaten global shipping

Nigeria records around 300,000 suicide attempts every year and at least 7,000 deaths

Torture in a bottle: we survived an acid attack

A Moroccan influencer has been jailed for violating public decency laws

Uganda's parliament has now approved deploying troops to Gaza for a peacekeeping mission

A humanitarian agency has warned acute malnutrition in parts of Somalia

Incumbent President Hakainde Hichilema takes early lead in last week's elections