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The main suspect is the widow of a Dutchman whose body was found in a septic tank in Kenya.

Methane is being extracted from Lake Kivu in Rwanda to generate electricity.

Organisers of the Amani Festival want to show a different side of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Stoke City cancel the contract of record signing Giannelli Imbula with 18 months remaining on his deal.

Heracles striker Cyriel Dessers, the Dutch league's leading scorer, says he is playing the best football of his career and hopes to earn a first Nigeria cap.

The deal is intended to end six years of conflict which has killed some 400,000 people.

South Africa will not send its Olympic football team to Japan for a friendly in March amid concerns over the coronavirus outbreak.

Has Algeria's protest movement failed or is it simply work in progress?

Hanok Andamariam is an Ethiopian student in Wuhan, the city at the centre of the coronavirus outbreak.

Police accuse Thomas Thabane and the First Lady of murdering his previous wife in 2017.

Ibrahim Kamara has left his role as head coach of Ivory Coast by mutual agreement

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

A top surgeon who harmed patients for years and can no longer work in the UK is operating again.

The actor's new film tells the true story of an escape by anti-apartheid activists from Pretoria Prison in 1979.

Port Harcourt resident Kalio says air pollution in the Nigerian city is damaging her health.

The Tunisian Football Federation has submitted a bid to host this year's Caf Champions League final.

The prime minister says he will retire in July, as police accuse him of murdering his estranged wife.

Former refugee Sirak Asfaw found it in a suitcase and has protected the crown for the past 21 years.

Atsede Nguse's husband disfigured her in Ethiopia, but well-wishers have helped her recovery.

A Tutsi on the verge of being killed by Hutu extremists in 1994 recalls how his life was saved as those who had come to kill him realised he played for one of Rwanda’s top clubs.