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The event is part of an effort to raise $1bn for infrastructure projects in the capital Addis Ababa.

Mauritania pledges to develop women's football after seeing its men's team qualify for the Nations Cup for the first time.

Five lessons from a controversial election.

Ivory Coast and Levante midfielder Cheick Doukoure is a major doubt for June's Africa Cup of Nations after suffering a knee ligament injury on Sunday.

Atiku Abubakar rejects President Buhari's re-election, calling it a return to "military dictatorship" .

Ivory Coast legend Kolo Toure has been confirmed as first team coach at Leicester City under new manager Brendan Rodgers

At least 25 people are killed after a train hits a platform at the Ramses Station and starts a blaze.

It is the fifth straight day of protests against the president's decision to run for a fifth term.

Official returns show Muhammadu Buhari won the election but the opposition rejects the results.

A mystery man who reports news from one of the most repressive countries in the world gives his first interview.

The problems the re-elected president of Nigeria will face include corruption and an economic slowdown.

Egyptian seamstress Baraka Shenouda was born without forearms and sews with her feet.

One of Tanzania's top referees has been fined $200,000 and handed a life ban by Fifa after its Ethics Committee found him guilty of taking bribes

Sven Vandenbroeck's short reign as Zambia coach ends as the national FA decides not to renew the Belgian's contract after his failure to qualify for AFCON 2019

Twelve-year-old Rosie has to either run away from her family or submit herself to female genital mutilation.

They say a South African pastor's outlandish video has caused them reputational damage.

Reading and Nigeria forward Sone Aluko moves to Chinese Super League side Beijing Renhe on loan for the rest of 2019.

The government calls it the RTGS dollar, but what is it and will it solve the country's cash problem?

Sprinter Gina Bass, the first Gambian woman to compete at the Olympics, says athletes are underfunded.

President Muhammadu Buhari - seeking a second term - takes an early lead amid vote rigging claims.