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Senegal forward Sadio Mane is ruled out of the World Cup and has surgery on a knee injury he sustained playing for Bayern Munich.

Two Nigerian athletes are convicted in the United States for transferring significant sums of money to the West African country as part of a complex fraud scheme.

The Hollywood star grew up speaking Afrikaans - many fellow South Africans are outraged by her comments.

Aliou Cisse was part of Senegal's history-making World Cup squad in 2002, but three months later was affected by a boat tragedy.

The continent's resources are at the heart of a debate about balancing growth with slowing warming.

Freda Maku Yoobi lost her job as a make-up artist during Covid and now inflation has destroyed her business.

The BBC’s Peter Okwoche is taking us behind the scenes of the UN’s climate summit in Egypt.

Lemekhani Nyirenda's sister tells the BBC she wants to know why her brother was fighting for Russia.

Communities in Kabale, Uganda are trying to save the endangered crested crane, Uganda’s national symbol.

Inaki Williams hopes to give back to Ghana after his late switch of allegiance has given him a World Cup chance.

What are carbon credits and how did Gabon earn them? BBC Africa's Claire Muthinji tells us more.

A climate-change resistant Red Sea reef is being flooded with toxic wastewater, leaked documents show.

Watch as Kenyan journalist Alvin Kaunda's reporting is interrupted by an inquisitive trunk.

President Muhammadu Buhari says the gunmen in Imo state will face the "full wrath of the law".

Sadio Mane will miss Senegal's "first games" at the World Cup because of a leg injury, an official from the country's football federation has said.

The BBC's Mercy Juma travelled to South Sudan where hundreds of villages have been affected by the floods.

France-born forward Bryan Mbeumo is relishing the chance to play for Cameroon, the country of his father, at the World Cup in Qatar.

Dahir's brother died of hunger. Now two of his sisters are fighting sickness and malnutrition in Somalia.

Lemekhani Nyirenda was serving a nine-year prison sentence when he went off to fight for Russia.

Alaa Abdel Fattah tells his family in a letter from prison that he has resumed drinking water.