The government wants secondary school students to harvest crops to help frontline fighters.
Fifa dismisses an appeal from South Africa, who claimed they were "robbed" in their 1-0 defeat by Ghana in World Cup qualifying.
95% of Cape Verde has access to the electricity but a third of the population still relies on firewood and charcoal for cooking.
The new variant threatens to overshadow the holiday season as campaigners fight vaccine fears.
The disgraced former head of world athletics governing body Lamine Diack dies in Senegal aged 88.
The country's Covid-19 taskforce admonished the paper by saying it was a "poor choice of words."
At least 26m people are struggling for food across northern Kenya, Somalia and southern Ethiopia.
A selection of the best photos from the African continent and beyond.
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