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Harrison Kingston was part of Liverpool's Champions League and Premier League success. In 2020, he swapped it all to work with Morocco.

Morocco defender Achraf Hakimi has been named Arab Sportsman of the Year for 2022 after aiding his country's World Cup run and Paris St-Germain's league title.

South Africa has the right to conduct such exercises with its "friends", the foreign minister says.

The fans were celebrating with a replica trophy but were arrested for staging an illegal procession

Ivory Coast legend Didier Drogba questions the length of Eric Bailly's seven-game ban for a foul that hospitalised another player.

Noella Luka documents her own descent into bipolar disorder challenging the stigmas surrounding the issue of mental health in Kenya.

The Head of the Nigerian Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Professor Mahmood Yakubu has told the BBC that the Nigerian elections will go ahead as planned.

Activists say not enough has been made public about controversial plans for the outdated attraction.

The US military says it helped government troops fighting al-Shabab Islamists northeast of the Somali capital.

Researchers say an easy three-step process, including a cheap drug, could stop millions of women dying.

Last week's mass kidnapping in an area hit by a militant Islamist insurgency was unprecedented.

The main presidential candidates deny accusations of trading in drugs, money laundering and tax avoidance.

Liberia President George Weah, Africa's only Ballon D'or winner, has given his backing to Morocco as replacements for Guinea in hosting the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations.

Women will now have to make up at least 30% of public and private sector jobs.

Nemes Tarimo, who was in prison in Russia, joined the Wagner Group to get a pardon, his family says.

48-year-old former Algeria international Nassim Akrour, thought to be Europe’s oldest outfield player, on his long career and facing Ligue 1 giants Lyon.

Kadiatou and Ibrahima, Ebola orphans from Guinea, share their experience of stigma and loss ten years since the outbreak.

A selection of the best photos from across Africa this week.

African football's governing body says it is "impossible" a Comoros player who tested positive for Covid played at last year's Afcon.