Cameroon’s Emmanuel Eseme on African sprinting, why he adopted Arsenal striker Viktor Gyokeres ‘mask’ celebration and his ambitions at the 2025 World Athletics Championships.

South Africa number eight Aseza Hele has been a star of the Women’s Rugby World Cup and plays on Saturday against New Zealand in her country’s first quarter-final.

But African travellers will be required to submit an online application for verification, a minister says.

Thabo Bester, who allegedly faked his death in prison and escaped, says the documentary is defamatory.

Babalwa Latsha has helped South Africa to the Women’s Rugby World Cup quarter-finals, and the prop is also tackling period poverty in her homeland.

Photos of new year celebrations in a country with a calendar seven years behind that followed in the West.

Olympic 200m champion Letsile Tebogo, World Indoor 800m winner Prudence Sekgodiso and 5000m world record holder Beatrice Chebet are among those hoping to make their mark in Tokyo.

Zambia’s Vice-President Mutale Nalumango says the compensation offered to communities “may not be all”.

Equatorial Guinea fail in an appeal against a decision by world governing body Fifa to impose two 3-0 forfeits for fielding an ineligible player in World Cup qualifying.

Fourteen deportees including nationals of Nigeria and The Gambia have already arrived, President Mahama says.

Survivors of the flood tell the BBC they are still in need of government support.

The dam is expected to be the Horn of Africa country’s solution to acute power shortages, but it brings problems for downstream countries

Worshippers have been gunned down in mosques and homes have been torched in escalating violence, Human Rights Watch says.

A raid on a Johannesburg factory found 91 Malawians, including 37 children, living in appalling conditions.

Kyalo Mbobu was driving home when a gunman on a motorbike shot him dead on a busy street in the capital.

The UN says the number of obese teenagers has nearly tripled globally in the last two decades.

Cape Verde are one win away from qualifying for the Fifa World Cup for the first time but Cameroon and Nigeria could miss out on the finals.

Simone Gbagbo will run against President Alassane Ouattara, who is seeking a controversial fourth term.

Opposition officials in the DRC have accused the government of blocking their attempts to travel to the forum hosted by the Thabo Mbeki Foundation

The government is relieved by the reduction in the tariffs from the threatened 50% to 15%

African Development Bank warns that economic growth could drop to 0.5% next year