Uganda-Tanzania $3.5bn oil deal: What you need to know

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Uganda and Tanzania have signed a $3.5bn oil pipeline deal which is to create up 10,000 jobs.

Tsitsi Dangarembga: Zimbabwe has become a transactional society

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Everyone views each other as a person they can get something from, Tsitsi Dangarembga says.

Egypt’s second deadly rail accident in a month kills 11

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Eleven people were killed and 98 injured when four carriages of a train derailed north of Cairo.

Libya: Ten years on the front line

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Our correspondent on what it's been like to cover the 10 years since Colonel Gaddafi was deposed and killed.

Table Mountain fire: Historic buildings destroyed in Cape Town

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The University of Cape Town's library and a historic windmill are hit as all students are evacuated.

Thousands stranded in traffic over Kenya Covid rules

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Police block major roads in the capital Nairobi to enforce an overnight ban on movement.

Sindi van Zyl: The ‘people’s doctor’ who revealed her own struggles

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South Africans are mourning Dr Sindi van Zyl who helped thousands through her social media work.

Sindi van Zyl: The ‘people’s doctor’ who revealed her own struggles

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South Africans are mourning Dr Sindi van Zyl who helped thousands through her social media work.

Why IS involvement in Mozambique is exaggerated

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The militants claiming of a recent attack got publicity but they may not have actually been behind it.

F1 in Africa: The fast and the fragile

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The story of the first South African Grand Prix, and the nail-biting title showdown between Graham Hill and Jim Clark.