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University founder in Ghana wins major international education award.

How an intrepid band of African footballers are achieving their footballing goals in some of the sport's most remote outposts.

Ghanaian journalist Elizabeth Ohene looks at how parenting styles in Ghana compares to those in the US.

Tanzanian women travel to Oman to become maids and get trapped with abusive employers.

Joseph Warungu marvels at how legal services are offered on Ghana's streets.

Find out more about the five contenders - Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Naby Keita, Sadio Mane, Victor Moses and Mohamed Salah.

Journalist Elizabeth Ohene argues that African identities remain in thrall to the continent's colonial past.

Prosecutors want to bring the brother of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi from Libya to the UK.

One woman remembers how a late-night visit from the Nigerian army tore her family apart.

Ex-footballer George Weah and Vice-President Joseph Boakai were scheduled for a 7 November run-off.

Reports of gunfire were received from several parts of the capital, the US embassy in Eritrea says.

2016 winner Riyad Mahrez is a notable absentee as Caf reveals its 30-man shortlists for the African Player and Africa-Based Player of the Year awards.

South Africa's Danny Jordaan says allegation must be "ventilated in a court of law".

Mr Hichilema says he was left for eight days in a room without electricity, water or a toilet.

Former Ghana, Ajax Amsterdam and Vitesse Arnhem midfielder Yakubu Abubakar dies at the age of 36.

Ijeoma Ndukwe asks if Nigerians will ever consider their own dishes worth paying a lot of money for.

Locals joke that if you marry a "chukudu" driver, then you'll never go hungry.

The Kenyan opposition leader though made no mention a legal challenge to the outcome.

A Kisumu teenager died after police clashed with protesters boycotting Kenya's election re-run.

Interim coach Moses Basena and Africa veteran Claude LeRoy are among more than 200 coaches who have applied for the vacant Uganda coaching job.