The first major new railway in Kenya for more than a century has some challenging goals to meet if it is justify its high cost.
Waves crashed over coastal barriers and travelled into a seaside car park in a storm which has put an end to the biggest drought in a century in Cape Town.
Fossils of modern humans uncovered in north Africa are at least 300,000 years old.
More than 50mm of rain is expected as the storm nears the southern coasts
Sierra Leone forward Alhaji Kamara vows to carry on playing despite the recent death of his elder brother Bai Sama Kamara.
Singer Teddy Afro reaches number one on the Billboard World Albums chart.
Gillingham sign defender Gabriel Zakuani after he turned down a new contract with League One rivals Northampton.
Among the dead is a family of four killed in a fire started by lightning.
Some people in Mozambique believe that the heads of bald men contain gold.
Fashion Sakala vows to put Zambia's elimination from the Fifa Under-20 World Cup behind him and earn a senior team call-up.
This was the third time in three years that voters in Lesotho elected a new government
Liverpool talk to Sporting Lisbon about Gelson Martins as they fear being priced out of a move for Roma's Mohamed Salah.
In the last British parliament there were nine MPs with at least one African parent.
In our series of letters from African journalists, Yousra Elbagir criticises the Sudanese government's failure to get to grips with a cholera pandemic.
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