BBC: Health workers fighting Ebola have been named as Time's "Person of the Year", and one face splashed on covers of the magazine is that of an ambulance driver, Foday Gallah, in the Liberian capital, Monrovia. Here he tells the BBC of his determination to battle a disease which almost killed him. For further reading click here.

FRANCE24: With twelve million inhabitants, Guangzhou, in southern China, is the third largest city after Shanghai and Beijing. Like the rest of globalised China, it attracts people from all over the world, among them many Africans. They are drawn there for trade and business but struggle to integrate into Chinese society, where prejudices still run deep. For further reading click here.

NYTimes: Only one African director has ever won the Academy Award for best foreign-language film, and that was the South African Gavin Hood in 2005. So the Mauritanian Abderrahmane Sissako is well aware that his “Timbuktu,” a drama about that fabled desert city struggling under harsh Islamist rule, would seem to be an underdog in this year’s competition. For further reading click here

okayafrica: Every three years in Douala, Cameroon, contemporary art centre Doual’art hosts artists from all over the world as part of the Salon Urbain de Douala (SUD). Doual’art was founded in 1991 by Marilyn Douala Bell and Dider Schaub with the aim of supporting the production of contemporary art in Cameroon. Participants in the triennial event create experimental, multi-disciplinary public works relating to themes of urban life and society in Douala. For further reading click here