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More than 1,000 people have been held in protests against President Omar al-Bashir's government.

Children were adopted from an African orphanage and sent to Belgium but their parents may still be alive.

Some women allege they were raped by soldiers during the night raids to suppress recent protests.

Ivory Coast defender Ghislain Konan faces a battle to be fit for the Africa Cup of Nations finals after picking up an injury with his French club Reims.

Football's world body Fifa says Zambia's former African Footballer of the Year, Kalusha Bwalya, has had his two-year ban from all football reduced on appeal.