World champion Jepchirchir fails drugs test
Reigning world women's marathon champion Peres Jepchirchir is provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit after a sample tests positive for EPO.
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Malawi opposition demands answers over president's prolonged stay abroad
This is President Peter Mutharika's fifth visit to South Africa this year.
Nigeria and Kenya Ebola patients may have crossed paths at Uganda airport, officials say
Officials say they both travelled through Entebbe International Airport on 3 October.
Hospitals deliberately targeted by Sudan's RSF fighters, BBC investigation finds
The UN human rights chief Volker Türk says the multiple attacks may amount to war crimes.
Crowd of 50 beats foreigner to death in South Africa
The attack on the unidentified victim follows a wave of anti-migrants protests in South Africa this year.
Two European women held captive for more than a year in Niger freed in Libya
The aid workers from Switzerland and Austria are due to fly home on Thursday, reports say.
Nigeria's first Ebola patient holidayed in Uganda, officials say
The wife of a diplomat based in Abuja travelled to Kampala for a vacation.
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Gambia to pay victims of Yahya Jammeh's rule from proceeds of his seized US mansion
The Gambia has confirmed receiving $2.5m from the sale of the house in Maryland.
Nigeria confirms Ebola case linked to East Africa
A female patient is in isolation and receiving medical care after being admitted to a hospital in Abuja.
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Swimmer, 65, killed in shark attack off South Africa's east coast
Janine Lochrenberg, 65, was out on her daily morning swim with her club when she was attacked, her family tell the BBC.
Sudan army drones hit mourners and fuel market killing more than 200 people, sources say
A truck carrying people to a funeral and a market alleged to be supplying fuel to the RSF were targeted.
Kenya cult leader's children still being starved weeks before trial, son says
Dan Mackenzie initially defended his father but now says he felt he had to report his own grandmother.
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Residents warned not to drink tap water after hundreds fall sick near South Africa capital
More than 400 people, mostly children, become ill after drinking contaminated water, east of Pretoria.
Morocco's first female prime minister caught between the king, clerics, and feminists
Will Fatima El Mansouri advance women’s rights amid religious and political barriers?
Exiled critic of Rwandan president found beheaded
Former army sergeant major Robert Kabera was a popular YouTuber and singer, who had sought asylum in Uganda.
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Burundi striker Berahino retires at 33
Saido Berahino, who cost Stoke City £12m when they signed him from West Bromwich Albion in January 2017, retires from football at 33.
Judgement day for Kenya pastor accused of ordering parents to starve their children to death
Prosecutors say Paul Mackenzie lured the latest victims to their deaths by writing notes from his prison cell.
Patients in chains rescued from suspected illegal rehab centre in South Africa
Some of the 200 patients were found with "sores all over their bodies" and in overcrowded rooms.
