Tokyo Olympics 2020: Refugee weightlifter Cyrille Chachit on his journey

Cyrille Chachit has gone from despair to representing the Refugee Olympic Team in Tokyo.

Tokyo Olympics Ivory Coast and Egypt reach last eight in football

Ivory Coast and Egypt both qualified for the quarter-finals of the men's Olympic football on day five of Tokyo 2020.

Zimbabwean with football dreams to be kicked out of UK

Christopher Arundell grew up in the UK but after doing time in jail is being deported to Zimbabwe.

Ivory Coast president and rival in first meeting since civil war

President Alassane Ouattara and Laurent Gbagbo shook hands at the presidential palace on Tuesday.

Sunday Igboho: Benin investigates Nigerian separatist leader

Nigeria's plan to have Sunday Igboho extradited are fading as he faces criminal accusations in Benin.

Tokyo Olympics: Medals, disappointment and controversy for Africa on day four

South Africans Tatjana Schoenmaker and Bianca Buitendag win medals at the Tokyo Olympics but elsewhere there is disappointment and controversy.

Moroccan Baalla attempts bite in Olympics fight

Boxer Youness Baalla attempts to bite his opponent David Nyika during their last-16 fight at the Tokyo Olympics.

Kenyans sue the British army over fire at wildlife sanctuary

Some 1,000 people are going to court after a fire destroyed 12,000 acres of land at a wildlife sanctuary.

Is there a future for Africa’s lions?

As lion populations decline across much of Africa, could community-led conservation help reverse this trend?

AKO Caine Prize: Meron Hadero named first Ethiopian winner

Judges praised Meron Hadero's short story The Street Sweep which ends in a "clever twist".