Neymar hits his second international hat-trick and Oscar and Fernandinho also score as Brazil thrash South Africa.

A Tunisian blogger jailed for posting naked caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad on the internet has been freed, his lawyer says.

Negotiations to end a strike that has severely hit platinum production in South Africa have been suspended indefinitely.

Cameroon will play Macedonia and Paraguay in Austria at the end of May as part of their preparations for the World Cup.

Public transport is paralysed in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, as taxi operators embark on a protest against higher parking fees in the city.

Ghana striker Abdul Waris wants to extend his six-month loan at French Ligue 1 side Valenciennes from Spartak Moscow.

Gunfire erupts inside the main army barracks in South Sudan's capital, Juba, in what appears to be a dispute over military pay.

The BBC's Rana Jawad reports from Tripoli on the dangers facing journalists in Libya in their everyday work - including bomb attacks, abduction and intimidation.

The high-profile trial of al-Jazeera journalists accused of aiding a terrorist organisation is due to resume in Egypt.

An anti-pollution campaigner has been telling the BBC's Laeila Adjovi about his efforts in his native Senegal to restore Hann Bay, south of Dakar, a once-beautiful beach now marred by industrial waste.

The third day of the trial of South African athlete Oscar Pistorius - accused of killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp - is to begin in Pretoria.

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