Pro cyclist to race while living in asylum hotel

18.04.2024 12:45 Trhas Tesfay was a champion cyclist in Ethiopia but came to the UK last year to seek asylum.

What will it take for Africa to host the Olympics?

18.04.2024 02:15 The 2024 Olympic Games in Paris are 100 days away, but Africa has never hosted the world's biggest sporting event.

Walsh to help Zimbabwe women's T20 World Cup bid

18.04.2024 02:15 West Indies legend Courtney Walsh will be a coaching consultant as Zimbabwe's women bid to reach a first T20 World Cup.

Nigerian socialite charged for throwing money in air

17.04.2024 15:30 Cubana Chief Priest is the latest celebrity to fall foul of a crackdown on "abusing" banknotes.

Togo opposition denounces presidential 'power grab'

16.04.2024 18:00 Authorities say the reforms are necessary - but opponents say they will lengthen the president's rule.

Protest and pain - Kenya's month-long doctors' strike

16.04.2024 07:01 Patients have been left without access to crucial services at state hospitals for a month.

Three Nigerian sisters killed after car hits them

15.04.2024 19:30 The driver is due to appear in court on a charge of reckless driving, police say.

Controversial half marathon result being investigated

15.04.2024 19:30 Organisers of the Beijing half marathon will investigate allegations that three African athletes deliberately allowed China's star runner He Jie to win Sunday's race.

Zambia's Kalaba 'critical but stable' after crash

15.04.2024 19:30 Former Zambia captain Rainford Kalaba suffers internal injuries following a fatal car accident on Saturday.

Sudan War: 'Tell me how to make it stop'

15.04.2024 19:30 Slam poet Emi Mahmoud wants the world not to forget Sudan, one year into its civil war.

Africa Live: Tanzania floods kill nearly 60 in two weeks

15.04.2024 08:15 Thousands of households have been affected and over 75,000 farms damaged by flooding, the government says - and more stories

Watching my country fall apart day-by-day

15.04.2024 08:15 Zeinab Mohammed Salih reflects on what has happened to Sudan since fighting broke out a year ago.

Somali pirates free ship after ransom reportedly paid

14.04.2024 21:30 The Bangladesh-flagged cargo vessel and its crew were seized last month off Somalia's coast.

The 276 schoolgirls whose kidnap shocked the world

14.04.2024 10:32 Most of the Chibok girls abducted 10 years ago in Nigeria are now free but some feel badly let down.

The children living between starvation and death

13.04.2024 12:45 Millions have fled Sudan's year-long civil war and hunger is now leading to the deaths of many children.