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The group of friends from Kaduna borrowed smartphones from family members and made tripods out of wood.

Former Zimbabwe skipper Brendan Taylor is banned from cricket for more than three years after admitting charges related to drug use and a match-fixing approach.

This is the leader's first TV broadcast since leading a coup that ousted the country's former president.

As the UN sounds the alarm over hunger in northern Ethiopia, a doctor describes what health workers face.

Comoros players have not woken up from their dream run to the last 16 at the Africa Cup of Nations, says defender Alexis Souahy.

The Gambia keeper Baboucarr Gaye says Cameroon fans can motivate his team when they face the hosts in the Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final in Douala on Saturday.

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

Lt-Col Paul-Henri Damiba says constitutional order will return when the conditions are right.

Midfielder Pablo Ganet says Equatorial Guinea's team ethic has been crucial in their run to the Africa Cup of Nations quarter-finals.

Gabon's kit man was arrested over allegations of sexual abuse immediately after the team landed back from the Africa Cup of Nations.

Some 100,000 people have lost their homes in Madagascar, while parts of Malawi are disaster zones.

Ivory Coast defender Eric Bailly was "very down" after his penalty was saved in their last 16 shoot-out defeat by Egypt at the Nations Cup.

The tea pickers claim they have suffered injuries due to conditions on farms run by a Scottish firm.

Ghana sack coach Milovan Rajevac eight days after the Black Stars crashed out of the Africa Cup of Nations.

Burkina Faso is the latest country to experience a coup in a region where democracy had seemed entrenched.

Egypt beat Ivory Coast 5-4 on penalties to reach the quarter-finals at the Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon following a 0-0 draw.

Lt-Col Damiba took power in Burkina Faso just three weeks after his 41st birthday - what else do we know?

Live coverage of Wednesday's Africa Cup of Nations last 16 game between Mali and Equatorial Guinea (19:00 GMT).

Two of the remaining three Africa Cup of Nations matches due to be played at Douala's Japoma Stadium are moved to the Ahmadou Ahidjo Stadium.

An eyewitness caught in the stadium crush that killed eight people at the Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon describes the moment things went wrong.