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Ethiopia's Kenenisa Bekele poses in front of Buckingham Palace.  By HENRY NICHOLLS AFP

Kiptum's death casts shadow over London Marathon for Bekele

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Ethiopia's Kenenisa Bekele said Kelvin Kiptum will always have a special place at the London Marathon after the Kenyan's ...

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The delayed March presidential vote in Senegal confirmed the country remains a beacon of democracy in a region facing in ...

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Kenya began three days of mourning on Friday after its defence chief and nine other senior military officers were killed ...

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Kenya began three days of mourning on Friday after its defence chief and nine other senior military officers were killed ...

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The deadly heatwave that hit Africa's Sahel region in early April would not have occurred without human-induced climate ...

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Members of a 200-strong audience struggle to hold back tears as the credits roll on the film Io Capitano in a small au ...

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Nigerian troops rescued another of the missing Chibok girls, 10 years after Boko Haram jihadists kidnapped more than 270 ...

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Botswana's 100m world silver medallist Letsile Tebogo said Thursday he believes 2024 will be the year African sprinters ...

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Kenya's defence chief and nine other top brass died on Thursday in a military helicopter crash in a remote area of the c ...

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International Monetary Fund chief Kristalina Georgieva on Thursday drew attention to the suffering in Yemen and Sudan, b ...

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International Monetary Fund chief Kristalina Georgieva on Thursday drew attention to the suffering in Yemen and Sudan, b ...

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Burkina Faso has expelled three French diplomats for subversive activities , according to a foreign ministry note seen ...

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The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has thrown its support behind the construction of a 700km c ...

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The World Bank has significantly scaled up its ambition to connect Africans to the electricity grid by 2030, from 100 mi ...

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France's President Emmanuel Macron and his Central African counterpart Faustin-Archange Touadera on Wednesday agreed to ...