The financial hole coronavirus ripped in African sport

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Sports personalities across Africa tell the BBC how coronavirus hit their incomes - well beyond just football and athletics.

Coronavirus: How ‘secret burials’ in South Africa could help tackle Covid-19

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South Africa's ban on large gatherings has meant the rediscovery of old traditions.

Coronavirus: Zambia sex workers praised for contact tracing

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There has been a surge in infections, mainly among sex workers and lorry drivers, in a border town.

Italian aid worker kidnapped in Kenya in 2018 returns home

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Silvia Romano, 25, was freed on Saturday in Somalia, in an operation by Italy's secret services.

War and the virus: Cameroon’s deadly mix

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Fighting continues to rage in English-speaking parts of Cameroon after most armed groups reject a truce.

Hisham Selim, famed Egyptian actor, praised over transgender son

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When a famed Egyptian actor revealed his daughter had transitioned, the reaction was unconventional.

The day the pirates came

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A life on the high seas promised adventure, until a kidnapping turned a young man's life upside down.

Coronavirus: WHO warns 190,000 could die in Africa in one year

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Covid-19 could linger for years and "smoulder in transmission hot spots", the WHO warns.

Rapper Ty dies after contracting coronavirus

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The Mercury-nominated rapper had been put in an induced coma in April.

Wagner, shadowy Russian military group, ‘fighting in Libya’

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The private military group has up to 1,200 members supporting a renegade general, a leaked UN report says.