Joel Embiid: Cameroon basketball star ‘struggling’ with Covid

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Cameroonian basketball star Joel Embiid is struggling after testing positive for Covid-19 according to Philadelphia 76ers head coach Doc Rivers.

Sierra Leone tanker explosion: Survivors try to rebuild lives

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Survivors are left wondering how to rebuild their lives after Sierra Leone's tanker explosion.

Rwanda goes electric with locally made motorbikes

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Rwanda's Ampersand wants motorbike taxi drivers to switch from petrol to electric.

Niger classroom fire kills at least 25 schoolchildren

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Many other schoolchildren aged five to six are injured during lessons in their straw-hut classrooms.

Climate change in Africa: “Trillions of dollars needed” for adaptation

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African Development Bank's President Akinwumi Adesina on why he is still optimistic that Africa will receive the funds needed to adapt to the impact of global climate change.

Sierra Leone tanker explosion: Mass burial in Freetown

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Many of the victims were burnt beyond recognition after fuel leaked and caught fire on Friday.

Meet Siny Samba, a Senegalese entrepreneur who makes baby food from local produce

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Siny Samba set up a baby food business in Senegal, using only unprocessed local produce.

Oscar Pistorius parole process to start in South Africa

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The ex-Paralympian will first have to meet the parents of the woman he murdered, Reeva Steenkamp.

Athol Williams: South Africa corruption whistle-blower flees for his life

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Athol Williams says he has received threats since testifying in a corruption inquiry.

Why Tanzanian Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah is hardly known back home

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Few of Abdulrazak Gurnah's novels are sold in Tanzania where reading fiction is not popular.