The story of Algerian footballer Abdelhamid Salhi, who estimates he played more than 1,000 games yet was never cautioned.

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned he would ‘flush out’ political opponents as rights groups reported dozens of activists had been arrested in a crackdown.

‘We will overcome attempts at destabilisation of our society by a few rogue Zimbabweans acting in league with foreign detractors,’ he said.

Players and coaches in the Ghanaian Premier League are concerned about the proposed return of football.

Nigeria’s largest airline Air Peace has said it had laid off a number of pilots and cut salaries in order to cope with the impact of the coronavirus on its operations.

The Embassy has hit back at the ‘pretentious’ EFF for ‘attempting to rewrite history and having the audacity to teach Zimbabweans about the land question’.

Tempers are raging at the Beitbridge border post between South Africa and Zimbabwe, where truck drivers claim that bribes of up to R1 000 are being extorted from those who want to cross the border.

A law used to harass and intimidate journalists has been repealed

Saniniu Laizer sells a Tanzanite stone for $2 million (£1.5m), months after a similar find.

Shoprite is the latest high-profile South African retailer to struggle in the Nigerian market.

Twin attacks have left at least five soldiers dead in Mali, a Sahel country mired in a political crisis that has sparked international concern.

Students Nneoma and Andrew are on a scheme set up by the Niger Delta Development Commission.

Domestic violence cases, like Sistah’s, have increased by 20% since the beginning of the lockdown.

Three ministers in Gambia’s government have tested positive for the coronavirus, officials said, days after the West African nation’s president went into self-isolation.

Three ministers in Gambia’s government have tested positive for the coronavirus, officials said, days after the West African nation’s president went into self-isolation.

Nigerian taekwondo fighter says that more and more women across the country are practicing the martial art.

The country has the world’s fifth-highest number of infections, and the largest tally in Africa.

Gut-wrenching images of seven stillborn infants wrapped separately in green sheets and laid out in a row on a hospital counter in Zimbabwe have drawn public outrage.

The IED, which exploded as the group’s cart was passing late Saturday, also injured four others, they said.

The governor of Lagos has said churches and mosques would reopen as the authorities move to ease the lockdown over the coronavirus pandemic.

Zimbabwean top writer and Booker Prize nominee, Tsitsi Dangarembga was freed on bail on Saturday following her arrest during anti-government protests a day earlier, an AFP journalist in court said.