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Police in south-eastern Nigeria arrest a woman who allegedly faked her own kidnap to demand a ransom from her husband.

Nigerian footballer Nosa Igiebor is injured after the team bus was attacked on Sunday after the team's World Cup play-off against Ethiopia.

A court in South Africa orders the state to pay the legal fees for the survivors of the mass shooting at the Marikana mine.

Nigeria to play Italy in a friendly match at Fulham's Craven Cottage stadium in London in November.

A group of international and African stars meet in the Malian capital, Bamako, with the goal of revitalising the local music scene.

Ghana will host Egypt in Kumasi on Tuesday to compete the first legs of the African 2014 World Cup play-offs.

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A suspected Somali pirate leader, Mohamed Abdi Hassan, also known by his nickname "Big Mouth", is arrested in Belgium, media reports say.

The world's most valuable individual prize goes unclaimed again as the Mo Ibrahim foundation says no-one will receive its award for good governance in Africa.

Liberian ex-President Charles Taylor asks to serve his 50-year war crimes sentence in Rwanda, rather than the UK, where he is due to be transferred.

More than 100 coffins have arrived in Sicily from the shipwreck which saw more than 300 Eritreans drown off the coast of Lampedusa.

The BBC's Anne Soy visits a clinic in Nairobi to see how HIV positive mothers are being helped to have babies free from the virus.

Italy says it is stepping up sea and air patrols in the southern Mediterranean following the deaths of hundreds of migrants sailing from North Africa.