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Mohamed Salah scores one goal and sets up another as Egypt beat Morocco in extra time in the Africa Cup of Nations quarter-finals.

Equatorial Guinea goalkeeper Jesus Owono has been offered a glove which once belonged to singer Michael Jackson - if the side win the Africa Cup of Nations.

WBC cruiserweight champion Ilunga Makabu wants a meeting with super-middleweight champion Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez after retaining his title.

Liberia's main jail stopped taking new inmates recently because it couldn't give them anything to eat.

The Nigerian star discusses Peru's success and his new friendship with the British singer.

How old bones and vegetable peelings are being recycled to make a water filter

Teenager Dango Ouattara scores as Burkina Faso surprise Tunisia to reach the Africa Cup of Nations semi-finals.

Zaida Catalan and Michael Sharp had been investigating abuses after clashes in the Kasai region.

Karl Toko Ekambi scores two second-half goals as hosts Cameroon beat The Gambia to move into the Africa Cup of Nations semi-finals.

Rescue workers in southern Africa are trying to reach thousands stranded as more are found dead.

Cameroon's Sports Ministry is hopeful the Olembe Stadium can host matches again at the Africa Cup of Nations after Monday's fatal crush.

Guinness World Records has officially recognised the world's biggest rolex - but it's not a watch.

The group of friends from Kaduna borrowed smartphones from family members and made tripods out of wood.

Former Zimbabwe skipper Brendan Taylor is banned from cricket for more than three years after admitting charges related to drug use and a match-fixing approach.

This is the leader's first TV broadcast since leading a coup that ousted the country's former president.

As the UN sounds the alarm over hunger in northern Ethiopia, a doctor describes what health workers face.

Comoros players have not woken up from their dream run to the last 16 at the Africa Cup of Nations, says defender Alexis Souahy.

The Gambia keeper Baboucarr Gaye says Cameroon fans can motivate his team when they face the hosts in the Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final in Douala on Saturday.

A selection of the best photos from across the African continent this week.

Lt-Col Paul-Henri Damiba says constitutional order will return when the conditions are right.