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Roberto 'Pico' Lopes insists Cape Verde will not be overawed by taking on hosts Cameroon in their final Group A game at the Africa Cup of Nations.

Disrupted preparations are a factor in a low-scoring start to the Africa Cup of Nations, according to former manager Claude Le Roy.

A selection of the best photos from across the African continent this week.

The BBC has obtained extraordinary recordings believed to be of phone calls made by Tunisian ex president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali as he flew out of the country in 2011.

The Confederation of African Football dismisses a complaint from Tunisia's football federation about their game with Mali ending 13 seconds early.

Hosts Cameroon become the first team to qualify for the last 16 at the Africa Cup of Nations with an emphatic 4-1 win over Ethiopia in Group A.

Kenyans spent several hours with electricity this week, what are the underlying causes?

In Kenya, around 200 children are currently held in confinement with their mothers who are serving prison sentences.

Six of Seychelles' most prominent citizens face charges amid a government crackdown on corruption.

The restored archive of a rural Ugandan photographer is helping people reconnect with their past.

Kenyans called for a KFC boycott after it was discovered that its fries were imported from Egypt.

The hospital treating Surafeal in Ethiopia's Tigray region is also running out of food.

African music from the 1980s is being digitised thanks to a young Parisian producer.

One day after a fire at the parliament building in Cape Town, crews are tackling another blaze.

Kadialy Kouyate is a Senegalese kora player teaching the only university-led course in the UK.

The anti-apartheid campaigner and Nobel Peace Prize winner died last Sunday, aged 90.

Computer scientist Erico Pinheiro has invented a drone system to deliver medical supplies to the remote communities of his island nation Cape Verde.

The Nobel Peace Prize winner's body will lie in state in a simple coffin for two days.

Isabel dos Santos, daughter of a former Angolan president, is accused of "significant corruption".

The restrictions appear to be some of the strictest in the world, with no option to self-isolate.