One-time England defender Steven Caulker is named in the Sierra Leone squad for the Africa Cup of Nations.

After becoming the first woman to lead a men's team at Afrobasket, Kenya head coach Liz Mills is targeting further landmarks.

Senegal, Zimbabwe, Guinea and Malawi are in Group B of the Africa Cup of Nations, which kicks off in Cameroon on 9 January.

Officials relax restrictions noting lower hospital admissions from the Omicron variant than feared.

A selection of the best photos from across the African continent this year.

Computer scientist Erico Pinheiro has invented a drone system to deliver medical supplies to the remote communities of his island nation Cape Verde.

The Africa Cup of Nations is being "disrespected" by some negative media coverage, says former England striker Ian Wright.

The Nobel Peace Prize winner's body will lie in state in a simple coffin for two days.

The Africa Cup of Nations begins next month, with over 30 Premier League players set to miss several weeks of the season as they head to Cameroon.

Teenage Manchester United midfielder Hannibal Mejbri is named in Tunisia's squad for the Africa Cup of Nations.

South Africa's revered clergyman, who has died aged 90, asked for "lavish spending" to be avoided.

Striker Victor Osimhen contracts coronavirus for a second time, just 12 days before Nigeria's first match at the Africa Cup of Nations.

Guinea-Bissau boss Baciro Cande names a 24-man squad for the Africa Cup of Nations, with half of his selection based in Portugal.

Professor Tulio de Oliveira who helped first detect Omicron says Africa plays a big role in fighting Covid.

India wrap up a comfortable 113-run win over South Africa just after lunch on day five of the first Test.

Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia and Cape Verde are in Group A at the Africa Cup of Nations, which kicks off in Cameroon on 9 January.

The carmaker apologises for an Egyptian commercial in which a woman is photographed without consent.

Ugandan author Kakwenza Rukirabashaija, who won a prestigious prize this year for courageous writing, has been detained, his lawyer has confirmed.

The reason for his arrest is unclear, but he has recently been scathing about President Yoweri Museveni and his son Lt-Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba on Twitter. His lawyer, Eron Kiiza, said he has not been able to gain access to the author and he had not yet been charged.

In his last Facebook post before he was taken away on Tuesday, Mr Rukirabashaija, who won this year's Pen Pinter Prize's International Writer of Courage award, wrote: "I'm under house arrest. Men with guns are breaking my door. They say they're policemen but are not in uniform. I've locked myself inside."

Mr Rukirabashaija is best known for The Greedy Barbarian, a satirical novel which describes high-level corruption in a fictional country, and Banana Republic: Where Writing is Treasonous, an account of the torture he was subjected to while in detention in 2020.

Ronald Ssekajja is President of the Poets Association of Uganda. He says because of the risk of arrest, writers and poets “shy-away” from writing anything critical to government.

Picture: Ugandan author Kakwenza Rukirabashaija. Copyright: Pen Pinter Prize

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Politicians and leaders of different faiths gathered in Cape Town to remember the anti-apartheid leader.