Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta announces that he and his cabinet will take pay cuts to help reduce the government's ballooning wage bill.

South Africa expels three Rwandan diplomats in connection with an attack on the home of an exiled Rwandan dissident, diplomatic sources say.

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South African will not investigate allegations that matches of the national team were fixed, leaving Fifa to carry out the enquiry.

UK entrepreneur Kelly Hoppen has praised a Sport Relief project helping Kenyan women into business.

Sierra Leone FA president Isha Johansen slaps Mohamed Kallon after an FA Cup match in Freetown on Thursday.

A team of online sleuths claim to have exposed an attempt to smear the former governor of Nigeria's central bank.

Nigeria defender Leon Balogun will be sidelined for at least eight weeks after fracturing his left foot in the friendly against Mexico.

Oscar Pistorius is back in court for the fifth day of his trial for the alleged murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

The Turkana region in northern Kenya is facing one of the worst droughts in living memory with more than 1m people in need of food aid.

A verdict is due at the International Criminal Court trial of DR Congo militia leader Germain Katanga, accused of being behind a village massacre.

Warmer temperatures are causing malaria to spread in the African and South American highlands, traditionally havens from the disease, scientists say.

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