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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?

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.

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.

Farah Khaleck has a rare and incurable condition which causes the hardening and tightening of her skin.

Family pressure did not stop Cameroonian artist Ajarb Bernard Ategwa from finding success.

Why tens of thousands of people are protesting against the ailing 81-year-old president.

An exhibition seeks to commemorate colonial soldiers who lost their lives in World War One.