Africa

Meet the seven-year-old Nigerian girl who wants to be become a boxing world champion.

A strike condemned as "criminal " by a government minister causes major disruption to flights.

Madagascar's Football Federation extends the contract of national team coach Nicolas Dupuis until the end of this year's Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt.

Veteran striker Emmanuel Adebayor is included in the Togo squad for their crucial 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier in Benin on 22 March.

Outgoing Zambia coach Sven Vandenbroeck says he will reflect positively on his time with the team, despite spending less than a year in the role.

Two white farmers accused a black teenager of stealing sunflowers worth $5 and threw him from a van.

Champions League winner John Mikel Obi says helping Middlesbrough to the Premier League would be one of his finest moments in football.

Algeria's president has barely been seen since he had a stroke in 2013, so how can he run a country?

The landlocked West African country of Burkina Faso is facing “unprecedented” displacement, triggered by armed groups and intercommunal clashes, and exacerbated by long-term food insecurity, UN aid officials said on Tuesday.

Thousands of university students protest in the capital Algiers demanding the president step down.

South Africans are outraged by a video showing the singer being assaulted by her celebrity boyfriend.

In a statement released on Tuesday, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, announced her regret at the closure of the UN Human Rights Office in Burundi – which was set up more than two decades ago – at the insistence of the country’s government.

The mother of Nigeria international Samuel Kalu has been freed six days after being kidnapped by gunmen in south-east Nigeria.

Why are anti-government protesters taking to the streets of Sudan?

Burns survivor Obumneke-Okeke Kosisochukwu says writing helped him heal after a terrible accident.

The policies that have shaped the image of Tanzania's no-nonsense president.

Women have been leading protests against rape in Somalia's Puntland region after a spate of attacks.

In 2016 Ivorian Cheik Cisse became the first African to win a taekwondo Olympic gold.

Ghanaians don't really need watches as most meetings start 45 minutes late.

The presidential result was not a surprise but there have been some big shocks in the parliamentary vote.