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Senegal coach Aliou Cisse hands debut squad call-ups to four players ahead of the Nations Cup qualifier against Madagascar and the friendly with Mali.

Former Zambia Football Association official Boniface Mwamelo confirms he intends to appeal his life ban imposed by Fifa on Wednesday.

Prosecutors say the driver left the train to argue with a colleague, but he blames corroded brakes.

The journalist asks if David Lammy's issue with her Comic Relief posts is "because she is white".

We spend a day with Abdoulaye as he shows us what it's like being 17 in Dakar.

The event is part of an effort to raise $1bn for infrastructure projects in the capital Addis Ababa.

Mauritania pledges to develop women's football after seeing its men's team qualify for the Nations Cup for the first time.

Five lessons from a controversial election.

Ivory Coast and Levante midfielder Cheick Doukoure is a major doubt for June's Africa Cup of Nations after suffering a knee ligament injury on Sunday.

Atiku Abubakar rejects President Buhari's re-election, calling it a return to "military dictatorship" .

Ivory Coast legend Kolo Toure has been confirmed as first team coach at Leicester City under new manager Brendan Rodgers

At least 25 people are killed after a train hits a platform at the Ramses Station and starts a blaze.

It is the fifth straight day of protests against the president's decision to run for a fifth term.

Official returns show Muhammadu Buhari won the election but the opposition rejects the results.

A mystery man who reports news from one of the most repressive countries in the world gives his first interview.

The problems the re-elected president of Nigeria will face include corruption and an economic slowdown.

Egyptian seamstress Baraka Shenouda was born without forearms and sews with her feet.

One of Tanzania's top referees has been fined $200,000 and handed a life ban by Fifa after its Ethics Committee found him guilty of taking bribes

Sven Vandenbroeck's short reign as Zambia coach ends as the national FA decides not to renew the Belgian's contract after his failure to qualify for AFCON 2019

Twelve-year-old Rosie has to either run away from her family or submit herself to female genital mutilation.