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Soweto Weightlifting Club encourages its lifters to stay off the streets and to advance academically.

Aid workers are still unable to reach large parts of Ethiopia’s Tigray region because of the war there.

More than 350,000 people are living in "severe crisis" after months of conflict in the Tigray region.

French forces have been helping countries in the Sahel region to fight militants.

Cameroon and and Ajax keeper Andre Onana has his 12-month ban for a doping violation reduced by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

We look up close at some real and fake anti-malarial drugs that were bought in Nigeria.

As the company tries to win back the UK business it lost, more alleged victims have come forward.

Gosiame Thamara Sithole, 37, was astonished by decuplets after scans only showed eight in the womb.

The former US president urges other countries to restrict use of social media platforms.

Ex-England youth player and Leicester City Women's defender Ashleigh Plumptre would 'grab the chance to play for Nigeria with both hands'.

Women in African Music is an immersive virtual exhibition celebrating performers and those behind the scenes.

Many people are circumventing the ban, despite government threats to arrest and prosecute tweeters.

Ethiopia's Letesenbet Gidey breaks the women's 10,000m world record by more than five seconds - just two days after it had previously been smashed.

Residents in war-torn Ethiopia tell of looted crops and cattle and no aid as the UN warns of famine.

The Gambia's Yusupha Njie is now part of Boavista history and he says his late father the legendary Biri Biri is still an inspiration.

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is facing his first major electoral test. But what has he achieved?

TB Joshua, who has died aged 57, was one of Africa's most influential preachers.

Belarusain club FC Vitebsk says that the death by drowning of their Nigerian player Kelvin Odenigbo was an accident.

Botswana's Isaac Makwala says delays to the African Athletics Championships will leave many athletes struggling to qualify for the Olympics.

Kenyan photographer Thandiwe Muriu creates striking images that celebrate and challenge her culture.