Ghanaians are about to elect a new president amid concerns about inflation, unemployment and debt.

Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah is well in front with nearly all votes tallied but her rival disputes the poll.

After Angola's Bastos became the first African to win the Copa Libertadores, could his triumph with Botafogo open more doors for footballers from the continent?

The US is backing a new train link to boost trade, seen as an effort to counter China's influence.

The anti-graft agency says they belonged to an ex-top government official but has not revealed who.

The vast majority are in stores and they range from Maasai armlets and dodo skeletons to fossils.

Villagers remain scarred a year after the military mistook them for jihadists, killing 85 people.

It could save the lives of thousands of children in Nigeria, where 180,000 died from malaria in 2022.

Joe Biden will highlight a massive new railway project to help transport critical minerals to the US.

Venâncio Mondlane tells the BBC that demonstrations could force the ruling party into negotiations.

Mixed-race children were forcibly removed from their families under a state policy in the 1940s.

Former Chelsea midfielder Michael Essien on coaching in Denmark and learning from Jose Mourinho and Carlo Ancelotti.

Massacres scar the town of El Geneina in Darfur, now a near-empty city as Sudan's 19-month war grinds on.

Guinea's PM Oury Bah says the government is working to restore calm after the crowd stampede.

Uganda is facing condemnation following the arrest of the veteran politician while in Kenya.

Olympic champions Letsile Tebogo and Sifan Hassan are named male and female athlete of the year at the World Athletics Awards.

The president-elect warned the group of nine nations against moving away from the dollar.

Abdul Nondo's reported kidnapping follows the abduction and killing of another opposition figure in September.

This is the latest incident on the country's inland waterways where regulations are rarely enforced.

Presidential candidate Panduleni Itula alleges electoral malpractice after voting was extended.