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Barcelona B and Senegal defender Moussa Wague apologises for sending off and says racist insults led to the red card.

Corporate lawyer Bola Tinubu says everyone has a responsibility to help fight child abuse.

Emmerson Mnangagwa returns home instead of attending the Davos economic summit in Switzerland.

The Italian ambassador is summoned after Deputy PM Luigi di Maio accuses France of exploiting Africa.

George Weah, at one time named the world's best footballer, is marking a year in power in Liberia.

Jazz musician Musa Manzini was kept awake for part of his surgery to have a tumour removed.

Kevin-Prince Boateng joins Barcelona on loan from Serie A side Sassuolo for the rest of the season.

Two foreign reporters have had their right to report in the protest-hit country revoked.

Winger Yannick Bolasie returns to Everton after cancelling his loan with Championship side Aston Villa.

The ex-footballers and former rugby player siphoned off money meant to help poor African children.

An Egyptian presenter gets one year of hard labour for hosting a gay man on his show last year.

All three Moroccan clubs Hassania Agadir, Renaissance Berkane and Raja Casablanca are drawn in the same Confederation Cup group.

Nicolas Dupuis will combine coaching Madagascar's national team with role at French fourth-tier club Fleury 91.

The fuel price hike that sparked protests was imposed shortly after South Africa refused the loan.

Ikran Omar's mother didn't want to tell people her daughter was a model, but says she's now proud.

Sixty per cent of the world's coffee plants are on the edge of extinction, a report claims.

Kenya's Gor Mahia are among the eight clubs to win Confederation Cup play-off ties to earn a place in the group stage of the competition.

Kenyan TV presenter Waihiga Mwaura looks back at traumatic week following the hotel siege in Nairobi.

The gunmen, said to be from an al-Qaeda-linked group, tried to storm a UN camp in the north.

Security forces fire tear gas at demonstrators calling for President Omar al-Bashir to resign.