The event is part of an effort to raise $1bn for infrastructure projects in the capital Addis Ababa.

Mauritania pledges to develop women's football after seeing its men's team qualify for the Nations Cup for the first time.

Five lessons from a controversial election.

Ivory Coast and Levante midfielder Cheick Doukoure is a major doubt for June's Africa Cup of Nations after suffering a knee ligament injury on Sunday.

Atiku Abubakar rejects President Buhari's re-election, calling it a return to "military dictatorship" .

Ivory Coast legend Kolo Toure has been confirmed as first team coach at Leicester City under new manager Brendan Rodgers

Twenty people are killed after a train hits a platform at the central Ramses Station and explodes.

It is the fifth straight day of protests against the president's decision to run for a fifth term.

A mystery man who reports news from one of the most repressive countries in the world gives his first interview.

The problems the re-elected president of Nigeria will face include corruption and an economic slowdown.

Egyptian seamstress Baraka Shenouda was born without forearms and sews with her feet.