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It is a big win for the young opposition leader, who was arrested after challenging the president.

From training in parks to sleeping on a gym floor, WBO world super-bantamweight champion Isaac Dogboe is now set for Madison Square Garden.

Timoth Conrad is a self-taught filmmaker who wants to be Tanzania's first Hollywood director.

The Mr and Miss Albinism beauty pageant in Nairobi aims to support those with the hereditary condition.

People are making illegal connections to homes and offices, cheating the state utility, officials say.

The longest serving player in the current Sierra Leone squad, Julius Gibrilla Woobay, retires from international football with immediate effect.

Moments of mourning in Nelson Mandela's home village of Qunu from 2013.

The Egyptian FA confirms it will not bid to host the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, saying it "will not compete with another Arabic country."

The Ivorian Federation insists neither they nor the Ivorian government have been informed by Caf of a possible shift in their hosting of the 2021 Nations Cup.

Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge and Colombia's Caterine Ibarguen are named male and female world athletes of the year.

The US mission was closed in 1991 amid fighting between rebels and the government.

MHD was a pizza delivery boy in Paris three years ago and now he's becoming a global star.

The highly threatened subspecies has been brought back to a reserve in Niger after a 50-year absence.

President Ali Bongo appears in a video in a Moroccan hospital after weeks of rumours about his health.

Rome names five security officials over the death of a Cambridge University student in 2016.

A woman used false identities to get into the presidential villa to allegedly run business scams.

Brighton defender Gaetan Bong explains why he is back playing for the Cameroon national side.

Former agents say Burundi's security services are running secret torture and detention sites to silence dissent.

After a decade-long battle, a small South African community stopped its land being turned into a titanium mine.

Jude Tebbutt, whose husband was killed when she was taken hostage by pirates, speaks out over the case.