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Six Commonwealth Games competitors have been held up abroad, with five missing the 100m heats.

Benni McCarthy's appointment as a Man Utd coach will be an 'out-of-this-world experience', says former Red Quinton Fortune.

The outgoing president's decision to back his one-time rival in elections has caused huge controversy.

September's 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers are postponed to allow the continent's World Cup-bound teams to prepare for the finals in Qatar.

South African swimming superstar Chad le Clos says his mental health was "thrown into a lively state" prior to a history-making comeback at the Commonwealth Games.

How the International Space Station is helping to tackle deforestation

Tabraiz Shamsi takes a career-best 5-24 as South Africa thrash England by 90 runs in the deciding Twenty20 to win the series 2-1.

Since 1997, Ila Popat has been attempting to get a passport recognising her citizenship to a country.

Paying for political influence on social media in Kenya is a shadowy yet lucrative business.

“We won’t move!” – The first ‘forced removals’ of apartheid-era South Africa

A selection of the best photos from across Africa and beyond this week.

In the past year the country has recorded 179 elephant deaths due to the ongoing drought.

Demonstrations turn violent after protesters storm a UN headquarters in Goma.

The number of women hoping to be elected is rising but they still face cultural and religious challenges.

BBC Africa Eye has tracked down the ultra-violent bandit warlords who are raiding villages and abducting schoolchildren across north-western Nigeria.

Post-mortem examinations will be carried out shortly to determine the cause of mysterious deaths.

Original Ife bronze heads, of which only some 20 survive, are thought to be about 700 years old.

A huge crowd of migrants storm a fence into Melilla in North Africa, with 23 killed and many injured.

Sharon Juhl is not your ordinary clown, he is a medical clown bringing smiles to hospitalised children.

Diana Mwazi is one of many young Kenyans who see elections as a way to make money, not bring change.