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The Uganda Olympic Committee announces a second member of its delegation in Japan for the Olympic Games has tested positive for Covid-19.

Eyewitnesses told the BBC that the Ethiopian air force struck a market near the region's capital.

Reverend Paul Obayi preserves artefacts burnt by preachers who see them as symbols of idolatry.

Rebel forces claim to have seized several towns, which the army has dismissed as "fake news".

Trabzonspor's Nigerian footballer Anthony Nwakaeme says he smiles at racists fans in order to silence them.

It is the first African country to get money for reducing carbon emissions through forest protection.

Haneen Hossam appealed for clemency after being sentenced to 10 years in jail for human trafficking.

Gloria Tumushabe is the founder of Afro Fem Coders which aims to teach Ugandan women how to code.

Ethiopians took to the polls in what is seen as PM Abiy Ahmed's biggest electoral test since taking power in 2018.

There are chronic shortages in some nations where Covid infections are surging, a key official says.

The UN says 350,000 people are living in famine conditions after eight months of war in the region.

The Gambia's national football squad boycotts a meeting with the country's President Adama Barrow in a row over bonuses.

The Ethiopian prime minister casts his vote in a key election for the country amid rising tensions.

For the first time in more than 50 years there is set to be a significant majority of African coaches at January's Africa Cup of Nations finals.

Uganda is one of several African countries seeing a dramatic rise in the number of infections amid a vaccine shortage.

Abiy Ahmed is hoping to secure a popular mandate, but polls are not being held in war-torn Tigray.

Birtukan Mideksa, a former opposition leader who went into exile in the US, says "shortfalls are inevitable".

Thousands of people rushed to KwaHlathi village after a man found what turns out to be quartz.

Tunisian second seed Ons Jabeur beats Russia's Daria Kasatkina to win her first singles title at the Birmingham Classic.

The Ugandan was part of a nine-member squad who were fully vaccinated, reports say.