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Developers say they are likely to have a modified version of the jab by autumn to combat the variant.

Alex de Waal writes about the starvation that conflicts cause, and the difficulties in tackling it.

Morocco aim to retain their African Nations Championship, CHAN, title as Mali look to win their first on Sunday.

Ahmad has been restored as a presidential candidate by Caf's Governance Committee, but Fifa's decision will be final.

Tanzania is promoting herbal treatments while denying that there are any coronavirus cases.

Yolanda, 17, is campaigning for better education and more resources for schools in South Africa.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala had been frontrunner for the role but was opposed by the Trump administration.

A new interim government is chosen to replace the war-torn country's rival administrations.

Al Ahly coach Pitso Mosimane is aiming to take European champions Bayern Munich to penalties at the Club World Cup.

Ajax and Cameroon goalkeeper Andre Onana is banned from football for a year for a doping violation.

Gregory Dow set up an orphanage in Kenya where he abused girls for more than a decade.

The male Brookesia nana, or nano-chameleon, was discovered on Madagascar and is the size of a seed.

Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo's term ends on 8 February - but a new leader cannot be elected without parliamentary elections, which have been delayed.

He was abducted as a child by Uganda's LRA rebels, turning into one of its most ruthless fighters.

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

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

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.

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.