Nigeria’s cash crunch: Hunting out savings from under mattresses

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Why Africa's most-populous country is introducing new bank notes weeks before an election.

Married Zimbabwe cricket coaches die three weeks apart

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Women's assistant coach Sinikiwe Mpofu found dead just weeks after her husband, men's fielding coach Shepherd Makunura, passed away.

Kenyan LGBTQ activist Edwin Chiloba smothered to death – pathologist

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Edwin Chiloba's mouth was stuffed with socks and tied with a piece of denim, a pathologist says.

‘Baby AB’ milks the moment as new T20 begins

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Reaction from Cape Town as 19-year-old South Africa batsman Dewald Brevis stars in first match of new SA20 league.

Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict: TPLF forces hand over weapons in peace move

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The African Union says efforts to end conflict in northern Ethiopia have moved in the right direction.

DR Congo out of U-17 Afcon after age checks

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DR Congo becomes the latest country to have its preparations thrown into chaos after checks find 25 overage players.

South Africa-Mozambique body-burning video being probed

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Footage has surfaced online showing people with South African army uniforms setting ablaze corpses.

Meta denies African content-moderator firm exit poses risk

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Sama, which runs Facebook's moderation hub for east Africa, is to stop providing content-review services.

Biodiversity: Rising tide of extinctions on Madagascar

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The island will take millions of years to recover from a wave of extinctions, scientists say.

Nigeria elections 2023: Election commission warns violence could halt elections

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The country's electoral commission says insecurity threatens the nationwide vote due next month.