Former Chelsea striker Didier Drogba is among several sporting greats who have invested in E1 Series, a globe-trotting powerboat racing competition about to land in Africa.

Opposition leader Patrick Herminie received 48.8% of the vote against President Wavel Ramkalawan's 46.4%.

Etosha National Park is home to endangered black rhinos and more than 100 diverse mammal species.

"The future is food, not a bad habit," horticulture specialist Clarence Mwale tells the BBC.

Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu breaks South Africa's individual scoring record with 37 points as they beat Argentina 67-30 to return to the top of the Rugby Championship.

Recruitment materials, travel documents, and job offer letters were seized during the raid.

"It feels good to be an inspiration," double Guinness World Record breaker Hilda Baci tells the BBC.

Charles Mwesigwa led a degrading network exploiting vulnerable women in glamorous parts of Dubai.

All boxing activities in Ghana are suspended following the death of super-middleweight Ernest Akushey 11 days after a bout in Accra.

One resident said the cemetery in the capital had been left littered with discarded bottles and cans.

Some 260 suspects were arrested in the operation across 14 African countries, says Interpol.

India, Qatari royals, China and ecologists have their own, very different, views on Assumption Island's future.

Ethiopian runner Shewarge Alene dies aged 30, the organiser of the Stockholm marathon confirms.

French authorities say the "remarkable seizure" was found on board a fishing boat following a tip-off.

The former French president was accused of using funds from the late Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi.

Peter Mutharika defeated the incumbent, Lazarus Chakwera, the election commission announces.

Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud says he is a prime target of the Islamist group al-Shabab.

The battle for Kordofan, with a population of eight million, is the latest frontline in Sudan's civil war.

The president-elect of the southern African nation has a long and controversial political career.

The drug - a twice-yearly injection – reduces the current HIV treatment cost in developing countries.