Aristide Bance stars for Horoya in Confederation Cup play-offs

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Veteran Burkina Faso striker Aristide Bance scores a hat-trick for Guinea's Horoya in the first leg of a Confederation Cup play-off.

‘I was whipped with metal chains in an Egyptian prison’

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For Ibrahim Halawa, what began as a family holiday in 2013 became four years in an Egyptian prison.

Nigeria’s ‘torture houses’ masquerading as Koranic schools

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Parents find their children maltreated in what they thought were Islamic rehabilitation centres.

Meet the people of Tamba

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Giovanni Hänninen says the portraits he shot in Tambacounda, Senegal "represent everyone's history".

A piece of Finland in Uganda

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A Finnish couple keep up the very Finnish tradition even in the East African heat.

A piece of Finland in Uganda

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A Finnish couple keep up the very Finnish tradition even in the East African heat.

John Steenhuisen to head South Africa’s opposition Democratic Alliance

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John Steenhuisen is chosen to head the Democratic Alliance as it struggles with a race row.

Kurt Okraku: New Ghana FA president embraces opportunity for change

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New Ghana Football Association president Kurt Okraku says he is getting to work immediately after he was sworn in for a four-year term on Friday.

Rugby World Cup semi-final: Wales 16-19 South Africa

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Wales fall agonisingly short of a first Rugby World Cup final as Handre Pollard's 76th-minute penalty hands the Springboks victory.

Libya in chaos as endless war rumbles on

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For years competing militias, rival governments and foreign players have been battling for control.