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The World Health Organization (WHO) has urged Tanzania to consider inoculating its population.

It is thought the dead were given the tongues 2,000 years ago so they could speak in the afterlife.

Indian Super League side Odisha sack English head coach Stuart Baxter for making "completely unacceptable" post-match comments.

Cricket Australia says it has "no choice" but to withdraw from the three-Test tour of South Africa because of coronavirus concerns.

East African farmers own 60% of the world's camels and are cashing in on the highly nutritious milk.

Women in parts of Nigeria are being left out of their parents' inheritance, despite a law banning discrimination.

How hundreds of tonnes of food that would have gone to waste is used to feed the nation's poorest residents.

The president removes some restrictions as infections fall and one million vaccine doses arrive.

A 33% year-on-year reduction in the killing of rhino for their horns is linked to Covid-19 lockdowns.

The EU's law enforcement agency is warning about people potentially cheating travel restrictions.

Asmelash Woldeselassie has given his eyesight, left arm and now his life to a succession of wars in Tigray.

Morocco sweep aside Zambia 3-1 whilst Guinea beat Rwanda in the quarter finals of the Africa Nations Championship.

Explosions and gunfire are heard at the scene of the Afrik Hotel in Mogadishu.

Tigray's ousted leader accuses Ethiopian and Eritrean forces of committing atrocities.

Algeria's coronavirus restrictions mean that people in the diaspora are unable to properly mourn.

Seventeen-year-old Victoline explores progress to tackle the disease in her home country, Kenya.

A former prime minister says there is daily fighting as rebel forces encircle Bangui.

Remembering iconic trombonist and exiled anti-apartheid activist Jonas Gwangwa who has died aged 83.

Madagascar's Ahmad, banned by Fifa for five years in November, has been restored as Confederation of African Football president following a court ruling.

West Bromwich Albion defender Semi Ajayi says he always wanted to play international football for Nigeria.