Nigerian Dancehall star Patrick Nnaemeka Okorie, who is widely known as Patoranking, has added his voice to the calls for Thomas Partey to join Arsenal and promised to host a two-hour virtual concert to grace the transfer.

A group that says it was recovering stolen African art in Europe went to the Afrika Museum in Nijmegen, Netherlands, and took a Congolese statue, all the while streaming their operation on Facebook Live.

Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo has named Mohamed Hussein Roble as prime minister.

Mali's former president Moussa Traoré will be buried on Friday at the Place d'Armes du Genie Militaire, the former air base in the capital, Bamako.

Lamine Diack, the disgraced former head of athletics' world governing body, has been sentenced to four years in prison, two of them suspended, after being found guilty of corruption, BBC Sport reports

it was a global cry on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, when two hijacked passenger airliners crashed into the North and South towers of the World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan.

The head of Libya's internationally-recognised government in Tripoli, Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj, has announced his intention to step down by the end of October.

Ivory Coast will not recognise Tuesday's ruling by the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights that allowed former Prime Minister, Guillaume Soro, to run in next month's elections.

Heavy flooding has affected 500,000 people in central South Sudan, according to the UN mission in the country