With Mohamed Salah top of the Premier League goal and assists charts this season, BBC Sport looks at how he compares to other great strikers and what records he could break.

The officer is the first casualty suffered by the Kenyan-led Multinational Security Support mission.

The Sudan army captures el-Obeid hours after rival RSF forces signed a charter for a breakaway government.

A growing number of women are choosing to be sterilised, bucking traditional norms.

Tuareg separatists accuse Russian Wagner fighters and Malian soldiers of killing 24 civilians.

Colleagues say Jerry Muhindo Kavali, 49, was kind, committed and "always had a smile on his face".

What is it like to be an ethnic Tutsi in DR Congo - the people for whom the M23 rebels say they are fighting?

Ibrahim Babangida's annulment triggered a political crisis in 1993 and is still remembered today.

Confirming the invite South Africa's president said there was a need for an inclusive peace process.

Wadie Jary is sentenced to four years behind bars for what has been described as an "unlawful contract".

The case against Kizza Besigye is now being heard in a civilian rather than military court.

Rwanda is facing a backlash for its alleged support of M23 rebels in the neighbouring country.

An Indian drug maker tells a BBC undercover team its addictive cocktail drug is “very harmful” but “this is business”.

President Ramaphosa urges multilateralism as US secretary of state boycotts the meeting of foreign ministers.

Lawyers for Samuel Eto'o say the president of Cameroon's FA has won his appeal against a $200,000 fine handed out by the Confederation of African Football.

The Malian was the first black African to win a feature film prize at the Cannes Film Festival in France.

Graves in the Tanzanian city of Morogoro are being targeted as people steal metal crosses to sell on.

It is the first royal tomb to be found since King Tutankhaman's over a century ago.

The health minister says the patients have recovered, and should not be stigmatised.

Coalition partners object to a hike in VAT, forcing Enoch Godongwana to postpone his budget speech.