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England overcame an improved performance from South Africa to comfortably win the second Twenty20 by six wickets at Worcester.

It is alleged Obinna Obeta was involved in a plot to exploit a Nigerian man and take his kidney.

BBC Sport Africa asks why a sports complex which the late Cameroon midfielder Marc-Vivien Foe started to build has fallen into disrepair despite government pledges.

Why a demand by Sudan's Hausa community to have more land rights led to the death of 100 people.

President Kais Saied may succeed in tightening his grip through a constitutional referendum on 25 July.

Either hosts Morocco or South Africa will become first-time winners of the Women's Africa Cup of Nations when they meet in Saturday's final.

Willie Kimani, his client and driver were abducted, tortured, killed and their bodies dumped in a river.

Nigeria's players play down their training boycott over a bonus row and say it will not affect them in Friday's Women's Africa Cup of Nations third-place play-off against Zambia.

Liberia's Joseph Fahnbulleh says he has vast room for improvement after finishing fourth in the 200m final at the World Athletics Championships.

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

One of the few doctors serving 1.3 million people may have to leave because he would lose his salary.

Senegal's Sadio Mane is crowned African Footballer of the Year for the second time running at a glittering awards ceremony in Morocco.

Seeing Nigeria's women's team stage a boycott over the non-payment of both bonuses and allowances once again is "embarrassing" says former international Rachael Ayegba.

Former javelin world champion Julius Yego says he can "still topple the greats" as the 33-year-old Kenyan prepares to compete in Eugene.

Ethnic rivalries have often led to horrific violence at election time, but this might be changing.

Fardhosa is just 13 years old but has lived through three droughts in her life and never had a proper meal.

Twelve states in Nigeria's north have Islamic courts that view blasphemy as an offence punishable by death.

The government announces subsidies on maize flour and cooking oil amid criticism of the timing.

Nigeria's players are in dispute with the country's football federation ahead of their third-place play-off at the Women's Africa Cup of Nations.

Hazel Nali's parents did not want her to play football, but the goalkeeper has helped Zambia qualify for their first ever World Cup.