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Fifa extends its provisional suspension of former Ghana Football Association president Kwesi Nyantakyi by another 45 days.

Lions, giraffes, elephants, leopards and rhinoceros are illuminated in sunrises and sunsets.

Cameroon-born former France international Jean-Alain Boumsong joins the Indomitable Lions coaching staff.

The Nigeria Football Federation bans coach Salisu Yusuf for one year and fines him US$5000 after he was filed taking cash.

Africa's top NBA star Joel Embiid says his dad banned him from playing basketball until he was 16.

Joseph Warungu reflects on the time wasted by male Kenyan lawmakers talking about a dress code.

The UN-brokered accord follows a week of fighting in Tripoli that forced thousands to flee their homes.

Southampton midfielder Mario Lemina now has 39 points on his driving licence.

The tax request is the latest dispute between Nigeria and Africa's largest mobile phone operator.

An Egyptian security source says a man was arrested after a bag he was carrying exploded.

Ajax midfielder Hakim Ziyech becomes the third Moroccan to be named as the Footballer of the Year in the Netherlands.

Watch Efe Obada in action for the Carolina Panthers as he completes his extraordinary journey from child refugee born in Nigeria and trafficked to the UK, to the NFL.

Former Real Madrid and Spain defender Michel Salgado begins work as an assistant coach with the Egyptian national team.

Rwandese side's reward for progress to the quarter-finals of the Confederation Cup is a pairing with Nigeria's Enyimba.

All-Tunisia clash is the highlight of the quarter-final draw for the African Champions League.

Spain has become the main entry point for illegal migration into Europe.

One woman has created a maternity kit to prevent mothers from dying in childbirth in Nigeria.

Firefighters are continuing to search for others who may be trapped at the factory near Cape Town.

Kweku Adeboli, who was convicted in 2012, was detained at Livingston police station.

Injury means that Valencia defender Geoffrey Kondogbia will have to wait to make his Central African Republic debut.