It's been three years since the popular uprising in Sudan - so why are people still protesting?

Nigeria are hit by another injury to a key striker, with Belgium-based Paul Onuachu a major doubt for the Africa Cup of Nations.

Cricket South Africa will formally investigate allegations of discrimination and racism against director of cricket Graeme Smith and head coach Mark Boucher.

Nineteen-year-old Adeoye Fawaz is the 2021 champion of the Chess In Slums tournament in Lagos.

Tigray forces have left Lalibela, a town famous for its rock-hewn churches.

The Home Office had concerns after racist attacks on the Roma community in Belfast in 2009.

North Africans love the Cup of Nation but for some, their African identity is open to question.

It is three years since protests started, leading to the overthrow of long-term President Omar al-Bashir.

Voting has closed for the BBC African Sports Personality of 2021 award, with the winner to be revealed on 7 January.

Demonstrations around the country demand an end to military rule, following a coup in October.

The shadowy Russian mercenary group, allegedly linked to the Kremlin, has been accused of rights abuses.

Algeria win their maiden Arab Cup with a 2-0 win against Tunisia in a tournament played in Qatar as a World Cup dress rehearsal.

Patrick Eyi, a former Gabon U17 coach, is suspended from football after multiple claims of sexual abuse against him, which he denies.

At Tokyo 2020, Kenya's Faith Kipyegon became only the third athlete to retain an Olympic title after becoming a mother.

The conflict has deeply divided the Ethiopian community in Washington DC - the largest in the US.

As a civil war rages in Ethiopia, government forces have been fighting the TPLF, a rebel group from Tigray in the north. The conflict has deeply divided the Ethiopian community in Washington DC - the largest in the US. Ethiopians abroad watch with dismay. The United Nations Human Rights council will set up an independent investigation into human rights abuses on both sides of the conflict.

Filmed by Gringo Wotshela and John Landy Produced by Morgan Gisholt Minard Reported by Barbara Plett Usher Edited by Xinyan Yu

That's all from the BBC Africa Live team for now for 2021. We'll be back on Tuesday 4 January.

Until then there will be an automated service and you can find the latest updates on the BBC News website, or listen to our podcast Africa Today.

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And we leave you with a photo of women in Nigeria celebrating the return of looted artefacts to Benin City.

It's one our picks for best images of the week:

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Marco Oriunto
BBC Focus on Africa radio

The son of former Liberian president Charles Taylor, says he is the victim of a miscarriage of justice and wants his case reopened.

Roy M. Belfast Jr., better known as Chuckie Taylor, was born in the US.

He is serving a 97-year prison sentence in the United States for torture, conspiracy to commit torture and firearms charges originating from the brutal years of his father’s presidency.

Mr Taylor was the first to be convicted under the US Torture Victim Protection Act, which authorises US Federal courts to arrest and try anyone on US soil suspected of having committed torture anywhere in the world.

Speaking from his prison cell in the state of Virginia, he told Focus on Africa’s Audrey Brown that he believed his case had been exploited as “an extension of a foreign policy tool in order to stabilise Liberia”.

A Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was set up after the civil conflict in Liberia; witnesses gave their statements, but the commission could not enlist Chuckie Taylor for prosecution because they did not have access to him at the time.

The TRC recommended the Liberian government open a domestic investigation, in which Chuckie Taylor could be prosecuted, however, to this day, this has not taken place.

However he accepted moral responsibility and apologised “for not advocating, or for not being aware that there are people who needed advocating for”.

Asked if he’s still in touch with his father, Mr Taylor says that he did not wish to speak to him and that “those ties have been severed permanently”.

Listen to his interview here:

Marcia Veiga
BBC News

Image source, Tomás Kissamá

An Angolan activist living in Portugal who is calling for the country's president to send observers to Angola ahead of its next election has resumed a hunger strike, after being treated in hospital for extreme dizziness.

Tomás Kissamá has returned to the Portuguese parliament, where he has been for the past 18 days, in solidarity with Angola.

“Portugal has a say and can play an extraordinary role for Angola,” he told the BBC.

“[President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa] needs to understand the desperation we Angolans feel and provide aid. I’m ready - and willing - to stay as long as necessary for a response,” he said.

He is urging fellow Angolans in the diaspora to follow suit.

"No matter where a person goes, they never forget their home."

Mr Kissamá has been on hunger strike following the comments made by Angola's President João Lourenço about "hunger being relative".

Will Ross
Africa editor, BBC World Service

The first hearing has begun at a Special Criminal Court in the Central African Republic which is looking into crimes committed during almost 20 years of armed conflict.

Three men, Ousman Yaouba, Tahir Mahamat and Issa Sallet Adoum, known as Bozize, are accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes.

They organised and took part in the tying up and killing of 37 people in two villages in the north-west of the country in 2019, the prosecutor says.

Six women were raped during the attacks.

Separately the US imposed sanctions on Ali Darassa - the leader of the Union for Peace in the Central African Republic (UPC) - one of the rebel groups fighting in the country's ongoing war.