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Some figures within African football have called for a unified window across the continent.

Ivory Coast will stage the Africa Cup of Nations in 2023, allowing CAF to give 2021 to Cameroon.

A Ghanaian investigative journalist was shot dead. Police believe he was assassinated because of his work.

Defender Sol Bamba says some Cardiff City players were afraid to fly following the disappearance of record signing Emiliano Sala.

Suspected jihadists at Mogadishu Central Prison were behind the attack on the security firm employee.

Six are killed as severe storms bring down as electricity cable in the Kruger National Park.

More than 1,000 people have been held in protests against President Omar al-Bashir's government.

Children were adopted from an African orphanage and sent to Belgium but their parents may still be alive.

Some women allege they were raped by soldiers during the night raids to suppress recent protests.

The Comoros Football Federation lodges a case at the Court of Arbitration for Sport over Cameroon's participation at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations.

Ivory Coast defender Ghislain Konan faces a battle to be fit for the Africa Cup of Nations finals after picking up an injury with his French club Reims.

A de-radicalisation scheme in Nigeria is helping former Boko Haram militants rejoin society.

Football's world body Fifa says Zambia's former African Footballer of the Year, Kalusha Bwalya, has had his two-year ban from all football reduced on appeal.

Tanzanian authorities say the bodies were missing ears and teeth in deaths linked to witchcraft.

Everton boss Marco Silva says the club have rejected an offer from Paris-St-Germain for midfielder Idrissa Gueye.

Graham Potter suggests Ivory Coast striker Wilfried Bony is edging closer to a move away from Swansea City.

Authorities say it's unclear what started the fire at the popular tourist attraction.

The Argentina Football Association confirms its national team will play a friendly against Morocco on 26 March.

Sierra Leone president Julius Maada Bio is among a large crowd to welcome the return of league football in the country after a four-and-a-half year absence.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa orders the arrest of officials filmed attacking a protester.