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A lack of experience is not an issue for these players.

Ugandan mobile users are required to pay before they can access apps like Facebook and WhatsApp.

Egyptian club Al Ismaily re-sign the Pharaohs' record-breaking goalkeeper Essam El-Hadary on a free transfer.

Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah signs a new five-year contract with the club.

The woman, who is now recovering in hospital, had been declared dead following a road accident.

Teacher Obieny Deng Agok fled South Sudan in 2015.

"He has a desire to improve and determination to win" - Didier Drogba on the rise of friend and former team-mate Romelu Lukaku.

Senegal's football federation (FSF) asks Fifa to revise its new fair play ruling which resulted in the Africans' World Cup exit on Thursday.

Villagers say the imam risked his life to shelter them, after they fled an attack by cattle herders.

Professional mourners in Ghana are paid to attend the funerals of strangers.

Meet 23-year-old Sherrie Silver, who masterminded the dance choreography on Childish Gambino's This is America.

The kingdom of Swaziland, now known as eSwatini, is holding its first gay pride march - despite homosexuality being illegal.

Virunga and Salonga national parks in DR Congo are home to threatened mountain gorillas and bonobo.

Nottingham Forest sign Algerian international Hillal Soudani for an undisclosed fee from Croatian side Dinamo Zagreb.

Fake pictures on social media are inflaming tensions after deadly clashes between farmers and cattle herders.

Some $300m allegedly stolen by ex-military ruler Sani Abacha is to be distributed to poor Nigerians.

Fifa defends the fair play criteria used to rank teams with equal records in the World Cup group stage.

All African teams are out of the World Cup. So what is to blame: bad luck, VAR or a lack of flair?

Dozens of vehicles were engulfed in flames after a petrol tanker lost control in busy Lagos traffic.

A selection of the best photos from across Africa and of Africans elsewhere in the world this week.