Hunting the shipwrecks of the slave trade

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Marine archaeologists in Senegal are diving on the wrecks of ships used in the transatlantic slave trade.

AFOTY: Winner of BBC African Footballer of the Year 2017 revealed

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BBC African Footballer of the Year 2017, Mohamed Salah, receives his prize from Jurgen Klopp.

Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah wins 2017 BBC African Footballer of the Year

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Liverpool's Mohamed Salah continues his great start to life at Anfield by receiving the BBC African Footballer of the Year award.

Mohamed Salah named BBC African Footballer of the Year

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Egypt and Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah is voted the BBC African Footballer of the Year 2017.

Hosts Kenya snatch Cecafa semi-final spot

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Hosts Kenya beat Tanzania 1-0 to ensure they grab a place in the semi-finals of the east and central African regional championship the Cecafa Senior Challenge.

Swansea City: Fitter, sharper Wilfried Bony pleases coach Clement

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Swansea City head coach Paul Clement welcomes a "fitter and sharper" Wilfried Bony after two goals in two games.

Kei Kamara: Whitecaps style will suit me

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Sierra Leone striker Kei Kamara is confident that the playing style at his new MLS club Vancouver Whitecaps will suit him.

Tanzanian President Magufuli pardons child rapists

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Rights group condemns John Magufuli for pardoning musicians who raped 10 primary schoolgirls.

Sudan appoint Croatian Zdravko Logarusic as coach

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Sudan name Croatian Zdravko Logarusic as the national team's new coach ahead of next year's African Nations Championship in Morocco.

Benjamin Massing: Former Cameroon international dies aged 55

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Former Cameroon international Benjamin Massing, whose crunching tackles at the World Cup in 1990 earned him an infamous reputation, dies aged 55.