Send us your pictures of Africa

The BBC News website wants your pictures of Africa.

We are asking anyone with a camera to send in their digital pictures.

We will be featuring some of the best in themed picture galleries running in the next few months - just send to the e-mail address below putting "AFRICA PICS" in the headline field.

Find out how to send your pictures

The images can be from news events but also from your everyday life - your favourite view, your friends and family or your holiday snaps from around Africa.

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At the moment we are specifically seeking photos with the following themes:

• Shadows
• Hats
• Fast food
• Elders
• Heavy loads
  

A selection of the photos sent to us will be put on the site, so please send us your name, where you live and some brief details about the picture you took.

E-mail them to yourpics@bbc.co.uk

If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's Terms and Conditions.

In contributing to the BBC News website you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way that we want, and in any media. (See the Terms and Conditions for the full terms of our rights.)

It's important to note, however, that you still own the copyright to everything you contribute to the BBC News website. This means you are perfectly free to take what you have produced and re-publish it somewhere else. Please note that if your image is accepted, we will publish your name alongside it on the BBC News website. The BBC cannot guarantee that all pictures will be published and we reserve the right to edit your comments.