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Shock as Kenyan lawyer killed in drive-by shooting in N...

Kyalo Mbobu was driving home when a gunman on a motorbike shot him dead on a bus...

Childhood obesity: The South African campaigners fighti...

The UN says the number of obese teenagers has nearly tripled globally in the las...

Chinese nationals jailed over kidnapping and forced lab...

A raid on a Johannesburg factory found 91 Malawians, including 37 children, livi...

Fatal dam collapse: 'How do you restart from nothing?'

Survivors of the flood tell the BBC they are still in need of government support.

South Africa beat England in rain-reduced opening T20

South Africa win a chaotic, rain-affected opening T20 in Cardiff by 14 runs as E...

Jihadists 'summarily executed' 127 people in Niger, say...

Worshippers have been gunned down in mosques and homes have been torched in esca...

South African court rules that men can take wife's surname

The highest court rules that a law barring men from taking the surnames of their...

'World has been watching' - Nnadozie's 'miracle' year

This summer has been an unforgettable time for Brighton's new goalkeeper Chiamak...

Ghana agrees to accept West Africans deported from US

Fourteen deportees including nationals of Nigeria and The Gambia have already ar...

South Africa fall to heavy ODI defeat to England

Jacob Bethell scores his first professional century before Jofra Archer runs thr...

SA face New Zealand in World Cup quarter-finals after l...

France face Ireland next Sunday in the Women's Rugby World Cup quarter-finals, s...

Kenya's Chepkirui wins Great North Run

Kenya's Sheila Chepkirui claims victory in the Great North Run women's race as E...

Ethiopia outfoxes Egypt over the Nile's waters with its...

Ethiopia is set to inaugurate a mega dam that has stoked tensions with Egypt.

Surprise as Ivory Coast's ex-first lady cleared to cont...

Simone Gbagbo will run against President Alassane Ouattara, who is seeking a con...

Dozens of DR Congo mourners killed in attack linked to ...

A funeral ceremony was being held in a village when the night-time assault took ...

ICC hears war crimes case against Ugandan rebel leader

This is the court's first-ever confirmation of charges hearing without the accus...