Kenyan Mansur Mohamed Surur charged in US over ‘$7m smuggling ring’

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Elephant tusks and rhino horns "hidden inside African masks" were exported, US prosecutors say.

David Bright: Botswana mourn death of former Zebras coach

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Tributes have been paid to former Botswana coach David Bright who has died after being diagnosed with Covid-19.

The solar solutions helping Zambia’s economy

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Foreign investment into solar products are helping to plug Zambia's power shortage problems.

Coronavirus in Zimbabwe: ‘We need vaccines now’

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Zimbabwean doctor Dixon Chibanda explains why it's so vital that Zimbabwe gets vaccines urgently.

Hope and fear as Somalia’s civil war turns 30

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Thirty years since Somalia plunged into civil war, BBC Africa correspondent Andrew Harding has returned to Mogadishu to see what hopes people have for peace.

Biden raises vaccination goal to 1.5m a day after criticism

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The new president ups the target as Minnesota records the first US case of the Brazil Covid variant.

Coronavirus in Zimbabwe: Nick Mangwana apologises for ‘medical assassins’ slur

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Doctors were furious with the government spokesman's comments about politicians' coronavirus deaths.

Uganda ordered to end Bobi Wine’s house arrest

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Soldiers prevented him leaving his house in case he organised protests against disputed elections.

Protecting the last wild lions in Africa

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Photographer George Logan highlights the decline of wild lions using conceptual images.

Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict: ‘My wife died giving birth to twins while we hid’

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A father tells the BBC his tragic story of fleeing the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region.