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Nigeria must go "back to the drawing board" after missing out on automatic qualification for the 2027 Women's World Cup, says keeper Chiamaka Nnadozie.

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Messi and his family had traveled from Miami on a private plane and were escorted by a police motorcade to a Rosario cemetery, where a private family wake was held before the burial early on Sunday. Messi's father Jorge Messi died Saturday at a hospital in Rosario at age 68.

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Months after passing a law upping the penalties for homosexual relations, Senegal is intensifying its crackdown on same-sex relations. On Friday, the public prosecutor’s office said 71 men have been arrested and charged with “unnatural acts.”

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The family of Moroccan footballer Faten Al-Azizi is mourning her death after she drowned attempting to swim from Fnideq to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in

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Cameroonian President Paul Biya's two-month absence from the country has fuelled questions over who is running the government, particularly after a major

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Ms Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean - two-third of Fugees - performed all of their landmark album "The Score," as Hill's Diaspora Calling! festival made its UK debut on Friday.

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Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio has urged Parliament to pass disputed electoral reforms that would lower the presidential victory threshold, introduce proportional representation and reserve 30 percent of political leadership positions for women.

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Africa’s lions are running out of space. Habitat loss, shrinking prey populations and growing conflict with communities are putting the continent’s big cats under mounting pressure, with retaliatory killings and poisoning posing an added threat to their survival.

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Congolese authorities have released a boat detained earlier this week over fears passengers might be carrying the Ebola virus.

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Kenya has formally bid to host the 2029 World Athletics Championships, aiming to become the first African nation to stage track and field’s flagship event.

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Former Benin President Patrice Talon has returned to the country’s political arena less than three months after leaving office, becoming president of the

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Africa’s largest economies are increasingly seeking to manufacture solar equipment domestically, driven by industrial ambitions and concerns about dependence

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Madagascar’s High Constitutional Court has approved a law allowing the state to reclaim land still registered to foreign settlers from the colonial period.

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South Africa’s proposed restrictions on corporate cross-border stablecoin transactions have triggered opposition from cryptocurrency companies that warn the

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The African Continental Free Trade Area Secretariat has awarded a 20-year, $3.1 billion concession to Nigerian firm Bergmans Security Consultants and Supplies

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Spain’s renewed engagement with Algeria has again highlighted the longstanding rivalry between Algeria and Morocco, centered largely on the dispute over

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Pope Leo called for peace in Sudan on Sunday during an address at the Vatican. Leo singled out El-Obeid, the beseiged capital of North Kordofan state. Residents are facing a lack food, water and medical supplies as fighting in the city continues.

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With Zambia’s presidential election just days away, residents of the capital Lusaka are hoping Thursday’s vote will bring meaningful change.

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Tanzania’s central bank has lifted restrictions on foreign ownership of government Treasury bills and bonds, opening the market to all international investors

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Frans Mathipa was shot while driving - we got access to the prosecution case against eight accused men.

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Algeria, Morocco, Cameroon and Malawi all qualify for the 2027 Women's World Cup in Brazil by reaching the semi-finals of the Women's Africa Cup of Nations.