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Paris calling: Ethiopia's Kenenisa Bekele.  By HENRY NICHOLLS AFP

Ethiopian legend Bekele returns to Olympics after 12 years

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Ethiopian running legend Kenenisa Bekele will return to the Olympics for the first time in 12 years after he was named i ...

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Chad's junta leader General Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno won the African nation's May 6 presidential election with 61 percen ...

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A Nigerian state lawmaker's plan to sponsor the marriage of 100 brides orphaned by violence has sparked a row over relig ...

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Tunisian President Kais Saied on Thursday criticised foreign interference after an international backlash over recent ...

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Generations of schoolchildren have grown up being taught that Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti was the first woman to drive a car ...

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French hard left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon is on a four-day visit to Senegal, where he became the first French political ...

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Hundreds of lawyers, activists and others demonstrated on Thursday in the Tunisian capital over the arrest of two lawyer ...

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Eight men have submitted their candidacies for Mauritania's June 29 presidential election, including incumbent Mohamed O ...

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A US delegation is discussing the withdrawal of its troops from military-led Niger as Washington prepares to abandon its ...

May 16, 2024 | Africa Stories

Mourners gathered Wednesday for the funerals of victims of an attack on a camp for internally displaced people in easter ...

May 16, 2024 | Africa Stories

Mourners gathered Wednesday for the funerals of victims of an attack on a camp for internally displaced people in easter ...

May 16, 2024 | Africa Stories

Episode 23 of a great African club rivalry unfolds in Tunisia on Saturday when Esperance host Egyptian visitors Al Ahly ...

May 15, 2024 | Africa Stories

Kampala, Uganda, May 14, 2024 mdash;Ugandan authorities must credibly investigate an assault on broadcast journalist Jul ...

May 15, 2024 | Africa Stories

Switzerland's Federal Criminal Court on Wednesday sentenced Gambian former interior minister Ousman Sonko to 20 years in ...

May 15, 2024 | Africa Stories

Innocent Kasereka sits in a rundown hospital in the war-torn east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), his neck ba ...