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A national appeal to help survivors has been launched by the UK's Disasters Emergency Committee.

There is a lack of evidence for the cut-off point adopted by athletics chiefs, a BMJ editorial says.

The BBC's Fergal Keane went to Mozambique to assess the devastation caused by Cyclone Idai.

Aid workers say thousands in Mozambique are still awaiting rescue from catastrophic flooding.

Kenya's Lake Victoria fishermen are struggling to compete with cheap Chinese fish imports.

The kidnap follows the abduction of a top football club coach on Tuesday.

Fergal Keane joins a helicopter flight over the areas of Mozambique worst affected by Cyclone Idai.

A crowdfunder was started for eight-year-old Tanitoluwa Adewumi after he won a US chess competition.

Patrice Neveu is replaced as coach of Guinea's Horoya by fellow Frenchman Didier Gomes despite reaching the last eight of the Champions League.

Lesotho's quest for a first ever place in the Africa Cup of Nations finals continues on Sunday away to Cape Verde in their last qualifier of the campaign.

Amnesty International says it recorded 14 recent deaths - the US says its targets are "terrorists".

A hotel in Zimbabwe is sheltering hundreds of people who have lost their homes in Cyclone Idai.

The UN calls the aftermath of Cyclone Idai in southern Africa a "massive disaster", with hundreds dead.

Bestselling author Alaa Al Aswany is alleged to have insulted the president, army and judiciary.

Samuel Fabin, who took Ghana to the quarter-finals of the U-17 World Cup in 2017, is appointed as Uganda's coach ahead of next month's U-17 Nations Cup.

Nigerian 'currency artist' Ezeanyika Anthony Chibuzor found life a struggle after moving to London.

The coach of Cameroonian top-flight side Yong Sports Academy of Bamenda, Emmanuel Ndoumbe Bosso, is released after being abducted by gunmen.

Netherlands-born Oussma Idrissi receives clearance from Fifa to swap national allegiances and play for Morocco.

The president of Mozambique has declared Cyclone Idai "a humanitarian disaster of great proportion".

Rescue operations continue to recover survivors from the floods caused by Cyclone Idai in Mozambique.