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Increased competition in Zambia's mobile phone sector is worrying its street vendors.

River transport is common in DR Congo as there are few roads but the boats are often overloaded.

Liverpool's Sadio Mane donates 300 shirts to locals in his hometown in Senegal so they can wear them during the Champions League final.

A group of female boxers who train in a makeshift boxing ring in the dirt plan to take gold at the 2020 Olympics.

Cheap and easy to obtain, the painkiller Tramadol has millions of Egyptians hooked on getting high.