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Tunisia are open to the idea of a tri-nation bid for the 2030 World Cup along with Morocco and Algeria.

Former Super Falcons striker Mercy Akide talks to BBC Sport Africa about her future dream of coaching the Nigeria women's football team.

This symphony orchestra in Ghana is making new audiences 'fall in love with classical music'.

France’s president has visited a nightclub founded by legendary musician Fela Kuti in Lagos.

Malawi's president is accused of receiving a kickback from a $4m contract, which is being investigated by the anti-graft agency.

Fifa President Gianni Infantino is saddened that no African team made it to the second round of the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

Leon Balogun says Nigeria need to play a bit "dirtier" and be more cold-blooded following the Super Eagles' World Cup exit.

The US is deporting record numbers of Somalis - some of whom have lived in America almost all their lives.

A new exhibition reappraises the work of Harry Burton, who photographed the decade-long Tutankhamun excavation.

Yoga teacher Irene Auma wants to help rehabilitate female prisoners in Kenya.

In Zanzibar, seaweed has become big business - and as it has been farmed principally by women, it has altered the sexual balance of power.

For eight years Yassine scavenged on a dump in Rabat, Morocco. But now he is the founder of the first cooperative for waste recycling in the country.

Villagers say the imam risked his life to shelter them, after they fled an attack by cattle herders.

The kingdom of Swaziland, now known as eSwatini, is holding its first gay pride march - despite homosexuality being illegal.

Virunga and Salonga national parks in DR Congo are home to threatened mountain gorillas and bonobo.

Nottingham Forest sign Algerian international Hillal Soudani for an undisclosed fee from Croatian side Dinamo Zagreb.

How to spot what's real and what's fake in the wake of the herder's crisis

Some $300m allegedly stolen by ex-military ruler Sani Abacha is to be distributed to poor Nigerians.

Fifa defends the fair play criteria used to rank teams with equal records in the World Cup group stage.

All African teams are out of the World Cup. So what is to blame: bad luck, VAR or a lack of flair?