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One of Africa's biggest clubs - Zamalek - is accused of 'immoral' and 'merciless' behaviour as it allegedly 'exploited' the contract of a player it no longer wanted.

Fallou Diop won the country's top racing prize when he was just 17.

The vote is being hailed as the first democratic transition in the history of the coup-prone state.

The FDLR says the government is wrong to blame them for Luca Attanasio's "heinous assassination".

An antibodies survey in Nigeria suggests millions, not thousands, have already had coronavirus.

These are the first cases in West Africa, five years after the end of the world's deadliest outbreak.

Horrific tales dominate the history of Liberia's civil war but no-one has been put on trial there.

Luca Attanasio and two other people die after his UN convoy is attacked near Goma.

Seif Bamporiki was shot dead while delivering a bed in a township in Cape Town, his party says.

He bags four prizes at this year's Headies awards, live-streamed from Lagos amid lockdown.

Ntuthuko Ntokozo Shoba is accused of planning Tshegofatso Pule's murder and paying the killer.

The three that died were Rothschild's giraffes, one of the animal's most endangered subspecies.

Just eight countries in Africa have adequate death registration systems, a BBC investigation finds.

The Red Cross tells the BBC there are major food and medical care problems in the war-torn region.

It is not known whether the seven electoral commission employees who died were deliberately targeted.

The military plane crashed short of the runway in the capital Abuja, after reporting engine failure.

The specialist insurance market has previously apologised for historical links to the slave trade.

Tanzania is one of the few countries in the world to not publish data on Covid-19 cases.

Some African nations have just begun vaccination programmes, but many have yet to start.

The Hirak movement marks its second anniversary with hopes of a rebirth despite appeasement efforts.