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Ntando Msibi left home at 11 but escaped homelessness to become a professional athlete.

As the 2010s come to an end, we want you to pick the Premier League's most iconic player of the decade from this shortlist of 15.

A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent and beyond.

The Ethiopian government set a target of planting four billion trees in three months this year. Did they succeed?

Care centres and specially designed courts are helping rape victims in South Africa

Hosts Uganda beat Eritrea 3-0 in the final to win the 2019 Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup, East Africa's regional championship.

Two ex-senior managers of South Africa's struggling power utility Eskom are among those arrested.

Algeria, Nigeria and Madagascar are Africa's biggest points winners for 2019 on the Fifa World Rankings.

Officials say it was an error to add the fictional nation from Black Panther to the list.

Women who want to pretend to be virgins before their weddings are opting for "re-circumcision" in Sudan.

Modou Fall had to get creative to grab people thinking more about plastic waste in Senegal.

Erick Kabendera's arrest in July was called an "assault on press freedom" by Amnesty International.

Five-year-old schoolboy Michael Komape fell into a pit latrine at his school and drowned in 2014.

Prosecutors say student Giulio Regeni was ensnared in a "spider's web" before his death in 2016.

Ex-Morocco international Adil Ramzi joins the coaching staff at Dutch club PSV Eindhoven until the end of the season.

Reinhard Bonnke, who died aged 79, is the father of modern-day crusade preaching in Africa.

Aston Villa overwhelm Liverpool's youngest-ever starting line-up 5-0 at Villa Park to cruise into the semi-finals of the Carabao Cup.

Hamdou Elhouni scores a hat-trick as Esperance Sportive de Tunis finish fifth in the Fifa Club World Cup by beating Al Sadd 6-2.

Senegal winger Ismaila Sarr says his countryman Sadio Mané welcomed him into the Premier League.

Ghana's Emmanuel Ageymang Badu is cleared to play again for his Italian side Hellas Verona after recovering from blood clots in his lungs.