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Former Zimbabwe captain Heath Streak is banned from all cricket for eight years for corruption offences.

The Ever Given's insurers call Egypt's claim "extraordinarily large" and "largely unsupported".

The fire in Niamey engulfed straw classrooms and those in the nursery could not escape.

Former Leicester City forward Ahmed Musa completes a short-term deal to play for Nigerian league side Kano Pillars.

South Africa's Busiswa Gqulu is using her songs and poetry to overcome gender barriers in the music industry.

The 2014 student abductions led to a plan backed by the UK but little has come of it seven years on.

Sprinter Ferdinand Omanyala is considering racing as a neutral athlete at the Olympics if he is not named in the Kenyan team for Tokyo.

Tunisia football boss Wadie Jary has knowingly misled sport's highest legal body, suspended club Chebba FC complains.

Taiwan and Somaliland are basically fully functioning territories but neither is recognised internationally.

The makers of the Bafta-winning documentary want to preserve the underwater ecosystem it features.

Morocco's Raja Casablanca beat Egypt's Pyramids 3-0 to become the first qualifiers for the Confederation Cup quarter-finals.

Turnout is unclear in the vote boycotted by opposition candidates over brutality against protesters.

Several opposition leaders are barred from Sunday's poll in a country once seen as a model for Africa.

Ghana is the world's second largest cocoa producer but sees little of the profits from chocolate - for now.

The permanent closure of a top venue symbolises the struggle many performers are facing.

Algeria's CR Belouizdad beat South Africa's Mamelodi Sundowns 2-0 to clinch a place in the African Champions League quarter finals.

A tax dispute has led to a shortage of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs and HIV testing kits in Kenya.

The city near Luxor has been hailed as one of the most important finds since Tutankhamun's tomb.

Scientists reveal how male gorillas tell others how big and strong they are by chest beating.

Trust in the AstraZenca vaccine is being undermined in low-income countries, says Dr Ayoade Alakija.