Cairo -Tunisia advanced to the quarter-finals at the Africa Cup of Nations on Monday night following a penalty shoot-out win over Ghana in Ismailia. Goalkeeper Farouk Ben Mustapha came on in the closing seconds of extra-time with the score at 1-1 for the session.

Cairo -Ghana skipper André Ayew oozed confidence as his team prepared for their last 16 match against Tunisia in Ismailia. "Tunisia will fall," he predicted. "Football is not only about tactics, it is also about being united as a team and competing for every ball."

The African Union has unveiled the first steps of a nearly continent-wide trade accord, outlining how tariffs within Africa will be phased out to provide a boost to continental economies.

Mali and Ghana moved into the knockout stages of the Africa Cup of Nations on Tuesday night as winners of Group E and Group F respectively. Amadou Haidara was on target for Mali againt Angola while Ghana gained their first win of the tournament with a 2-0 success over Guinea Bissau.

Ghana enter their west African derby against Cameroon on Saturday at the Africa Cup of Nations aiming for a first victory in five matches at the continental championships.

Cameroon keep it tight to frustrate Ghana while Mauritania, after a 4-1 hammering, go into nuclear lockdown against Angola.

Cameroon began their quest for back-to-back Cup of Nations titles on Tuesday night with a workmanlike victory over Guinea Bissau in Group F at the Ismailia Stadium.

Key cocoa producers in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana have successfully banded together to stop future sales in order to demand higher prices for their raw materials, in an effort to get a fairer share of cocoa revenue.

It was the legendary Liverpool manager Bill Shankly who once rasped that football was more important than life or death. But the notoriously fiery Scotsman, in the calm of the everday, was able to chuckle about his intensity.

Renowned Ghanaian undercover journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas has vowed to step up the fight against "criminals and murderers" following the gangland-style assassination of his colleague Ahmed Hussein-Suale. The investigative journalist Hussein-Suale was shot by gunmen last week in a targeted attack that Anas believes may have been intended for him.

Police have questioned Ghanaian MP Kennedy Agyapong over Wednesday's murder of investigative journalist Ahmed Hussein-Suale, a member of Tiger Eye Private Investigations led by renowned journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas.

Ghanaian pastor causes Muslim furor with prophesy predicting the imminent death of the country's Grand Imam.

Ghana's economy posted a robust 7.4 percent growth rate in 2018, but up to one third of the country's lenders have disappeared from the financial landscape since the start of 2019, according the African weekly Jeune Afrique.

A member of the African Union's anti-corruption advisory board has resigned over the body's alleged corruption. Daniel Batidam, who served for three years, denounces "multiple irregularities" within the organisation that are hindering its fight against graft.

The chance meeting of a Ghanaian psychiatrist and an American urban biologist tracking foxes in London sets the pace for Happiness, the latest novel by award-winning writer Aminatta Forna. Does experiencing a traumatic event damage a person forever? Dr. Attila Asare, bucking traditional trauma research, examines his theory partially through flashbacks for the reader, as well as his attention to a case that he is indirectly tied to.

French President Emmanuel Macron has called for "reconciliation" of the ways former colonisers and colonised remember the past but ruled out reparations. Macron toured three African countries, two of them former French colonies, last week and is soon to visit Algeria.

Goals from the Ayew brothers, Jordan and André, either side of a sumptuous strike from Paul-Jose M\'poku sent Ghana into the semi-finals at the Cup of Nations for the sixth consecutive tournament.

Ghana can become the second team to secure a place in the quarter-finals of the Africa Cup of Nations if they beat Mali in Group D in Port-Gentil on Saturday. Avram Grant\'s side won their opening game on 17 January against Uganda. A similar result would provide a berth in the last eight for the sixth consecutive tournament.

Côte d\'Ivoire disappoint, Sredojevic puts on his glad rags for Uganda, Ghana\'s Grant gets ratty and so does Sarri over in Napoli on Day 7 at CAN 2017.

Ghana coach Avram Grant urged Africa Cup of Nations organisers to change the regulations so that teams can replace players who have suffered injuries because of the state of the pitches.