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Children were adopted from an African orphanage and sent to Belgium but their parents may still be alive.

Some women allege they were raped by soldiers during the night raids to suppress recent protests.

The Comoros Football Federation lodges a case at the Court of Arbitration for Sport over Cameroon's participation at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations.

Ivory Coast defender Ghislain Konan faces a battle to be fit for the Africa Cup of Nations finals after picking up an injury with his French club Reims.

A de-radicalisation scheme in Nigeria is helping former Boko Haram militants rejoin society.

Football's world body Fifa says Zambia's former African Footballer of the Year, Kalusha Bwalya, has had his two-year ban from all football reduced on appeal.

Tanzanian authorities say the bodies were missing ears and teeth in deaths linked to witchcraft.

Everton boss Marco Silva says the club have rejected an offer from Paris-St-Germain for midfielder Idrissa Gueye.

Graham Potter suggests Ivory Coast striker Wilfried Bony is edging closer to a move away from Swansea City.

Authorities say it's unclear what started the fire at the popular tourist attraction.

The Argentina Football Association confirms its national team will play a friendly against Morocco on 26 March.

Sierra Leone president Julius Maada Bio is among a large crowd to welcome the return of league football in the country after a four-and-a-half year absence.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa orders the arrest of officials filmed attacking a protester.

Nigeria's president says Western powers were wrong to criticise the suspension of the chief justice.

Organisers of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt change the dates of the tournament to allow players to rest after the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

The heroin-based cocktail that robbed a man of a decade of his life in one South African township.

Sudan's president Omar al-Bashir says protesters are trying to replicate the so-called Arab Spring.

South Sudan's FA announces that all international matches in 2019 will be played in Uganda whilst the Juba national stadium undergoes renovations.

Cameroon's 2019 top tier domestic championship fails to get underway after clubs stage a boycott of the opening game in Yaounde.

Music fans make pilgrimage to Zimbabwean singer Oliver Mtukudzi's home village for his burial.