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Diamond League finals: Gudaf Tsegay smashes women's 5,000m world record by almost five seconds

Sun, 09/17/2023 - 22:10
Watch the moment Ethiopia's Gudaf Tsegay breaks the women's 5,000m world record by nearly five seconds, running 14.00.21 to beat Faith Kipyegon's 14.05.20 and win the Diamond League title.
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Morocco earthquake: The scars, the rubble and the spirit to rebuild

Sun, 09/17/2023 - 19:15
Morocco's earthquake destroyed lives but survivors are picking themselves up, James Copnall finds.
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Hundreds of Eritrean opposition supporters arrested in Stuttgart

Sun, 09/17/2023 - 17:52
There have been a series of clashes between Eritrean regime supporters and opposition supporters abroad.
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Sudan conflict: Landmark skyscraper in Khartoum engulfed in flames

Sun, 09/17/2023 - 17:32
Dark smoke rises from the cone-shaped tower as several government buildings come under attack.
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Khartoum: Fire guts landmark skyscraper

Sun, 09/17/2023 - 15:36
The Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company Tower had been engulfed in flames in the Sudan's capital.
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Sudan conflict: Risking lives to bury the dead in Omdurman

Sun, 09/17/2023 - 01:05
Zeinab Mohamed Salih writes about how dangerous it was to bury her grandmother in war-hit Sudan.
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Libya floods: 'This was a riverbed, it's just a wasteland now'

Sat, 09/16/2023 - 22:07
The BBC's Anna Foster describes the devastation in the Libyan city of Derna after floods a week ago.
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Libya floods: A barren wasteland with a lingering smell of death

Sat, 09/16/2023 - 20:36
With lives in Libya washed away, anger mounts as people ask why they were told to stay at home.
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Libya flood: 'There's a smell of decay and death in the air'

Sat, 09/16/2023 - 16:42
The BBC's Anna Foster is in Libya, a week on from devastating floods in the region.
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Libya flood: Drone images show extent of Derna destruction

Sat, 09/16/2023 - 10:55
Video footage from the city of Derna shows wide-scale destruction following Libya's deadliest storm in decades.
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Buthelezi funeral: South Africans mull legacy of divisive Zulu leader

Sat, 09/16/2023 - 10:07
Mangosuthu Buthelezi has been granted a state funeral but the debate over his legacy reopens wounds.
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Libyan official rejects blame for flood disaster

Fri, 09/15/2023 - 22:40
An official tells the BBC people in Derna were told to flee but some did not take the threat seriously.
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Libya: BBC finds little foreign aid in flood-hit Derna

Fri, 09/15/2023 - 21:02
In the Libyan city of Derna, Anna Foster describes the flood devastation and lack of international aid.
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Trevor Noah jumps into fan's car to beat traffic in Johannesburg

Fri, 09/15/2023 - 19:57
The ex-Daily Show host's ordeal played out live on air as he ran late for an interview in Johannesburg.
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Morocco earthquake: The teacher who lost all 32 of her pupils

Fri, 09/15/2023 - 18:38
A teacher tells the BBC all 32 of her pupils died after tremors struck a mountain village.
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Libya flooding: CCTV shows cars swept away in Derna

Fri, 09/15/2023 - 15:55
Large parts of the city of Derna were destroyed after two dams burst, with thousands killed.
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Rugby 'the way to unify' Africa with 'better virtues' than football - Mensah

Fri, 09/15/2023 - 15:20
The man in charge of African rugby, Herbert Mensah, says the sport should be taught in every school across the continent because its "virtues are better than football".
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Africa's week in pictures: 8-14 August 2023

Fri, 09/15/2023 - 02:16
A selection of the best photos from the African continent and beyond.
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A village in Egypt bereaved by the Libyan flood

Fri, 09/15/2023 - 01:29
The Egyptian village of al-Sharif has lost at least 70 young men in the Libyan floods.
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Morocco earthquake: Gambian minds 'not on the game' prior to Afcon qualification

Thu, 09/14/2023 - 18:43
Captain Omar Colley cannot celebrate The Gambia's qualification for the Africa Cup of Nations after experiencing the trauma of Friday's earthquake in Morocco.
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