Africa

With CHAN due to start on January 12, football and politics are colliding again with an off-field match-up between the North African neighbours.

The first black football icon had a huge impact in Africa and his trips to the continent were full of drama.

The festival is extremely popular with African Americans who like to see in the New Year in Africa.

A female lawyer was shot in the main city, Lagos, as she was returning home from a church service.

Brighton appoint Zambian former player Enock Mwepu as their Under-9s academy coach from January.

Ian Khama is facing more than a dozen criminal charges, including possessing illegal firearms.

Gambian drummer Seneke Sillah has been teaching in London for several years.

A selection of the best photos from across the African continent this year.

Some Kenyan students blame intensified curriculum for the spike in numbers of boarding school fires.

After returning from Europe in October, the cleric was detained without being charged or put on trial.

Passenger flights resume between Addis Ababa and war-devastated Tigray, following a peace deal.

A drunk car driver ploughs into crowds at the annual event in the southern port city of Calabar.

Adama Diémé was motivated after seeing once-verdant villages in Senegal without a single tree.

Barbers in Britain are being trained to recognise mental health issues and how to help clients get the support they need.

Women open up about the problem of opioid abuse in Somalia following the death of a popular TikToker.

London-based artist Pauli The PSM talks about ambient music, being a 'badman' and The Jetsons.

Thirteen-year old Zimbabwean singer Andrea went viral after a church goes filmed him singing.

Can the launch of the Africa Super League in 2023 close the vast gap between the club game on the continent and in Europe?

RnB singer Akon is planning a Senegalese super-city running on cryptocurrency. But will it happen?

Nigerian singer Oxlade says that the hit song Ku Lo Sa was inspired by a woman in his life.