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People smugglers opened fire on 100 migrants trying to flee their clutches, an aid agency reports.

Children are among the dead after a bus hit a tractor that was driving at night without lights.

Africans have been overtaken by Mo Salah fever, ahead of the Liverpool-Real Madrid showdown.

Some people "don't think a black woman should be leading Fifa", says Fatma Samoura - the organisation's first female secretary general.

Ethiopia's small businesses are being hit hard by a lack of access to foreign cash.