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The wildlife authority describes this as a landmark punishment in the protection of rare species.

A selection of the best photos from across Africa and beyond this week.

Cameroon will 'try everything' to get NBA star Joel Embiid to commit to play for their national side rather than France.

Two years since End Sars protests rocked Nigeria, families are still waiting for justice for their loved ones.

Senegal captain and Chelsea defender Kalidou Koulibaly says the Teranga Lions are aiming to become the first African nation to win the World Cup.

Shire is one of the biggest urban centres in Tigray and provides strategic access to the capital Mekelle.

Giraffes are not usually aggressive except when females are protecting their calves.

Images of nights skies show power supplies disappearing in Ethiopia as a humanitarian crisis bites.

The start of Sierra Leone's first ever national women's football league is described as "beautiful history" by President Julius Maada Bio.

World Cup debutants Tanzania are now setting their targets even higher at the ongoing U17 women's tournament in India.

Horrific accounts from a brutal war in Ethiopia that has left tens of thousands dead.

The fall of Shire, Alamata and Korem heightens concern for civilians in the 23-month civil war.

Ibrahim Mukunga Wachira and Keneth Kiprop Renju become the latest Kenyan athletes to be provisionally suspended for alleged doping offences.

Bruno Fernando, the only Angolan to ever play in the NBA, thinks it is a matter of time before his footsteps are followed.

Members of Bristol's Somali community say they have had to cut the amount of money they send home.

Elephant ivory that's supposed to be under lock and key has turned up in recent seizures, say scientists.

Kenya's Lake Turkana is expanding rapidly despite four failed rainy seasons, devastating livelihoods.

British citizen Lutfunisa Kwandwalla was found dead at the home of a spiritual leader in Kenya.

Eight-time NBA All-Star Dikembe Mutombo is undergoing treatment for a brain tumour.

Andrew Harding reports on one family’s agonising loss in Somalia amid growing fears of a famine.