Last year's finalists South Africa start their T20 World Cup campaign with an impressive 10-wicket win over West Indies.

Lack of testing and delays in getting the results have made curbing the virus's spread harder.

A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond.

Chagossians claim they were repeatedly refused the chance to take part in negotiations behind the historic deal.

DR Congo-born Dikembe Mutombo has been hailed for his humanitarian work across Africa following his death aged 58 from brain cancer.

A video circulating online shows the boat tilting to one side and then sinking just before it arrived.

Meet Victor and Confidence Kipo, the young Nigerian siblings doing the trick when it comes to freestyle football.

The viral animation referred to a recent wave of abductions and killings of opposition activists.

Gen Akol Koor Kuc has been moved to become governor of Warrup State, where insecurity is rife.

In a historic move, the UK gives up sovereignty of a strategic group of islands in the Indian Ocean.

The award-winning music icon fell ill while on a music tour in Botswana last month, his management says.

A drought has caused an electricity crisis as Zambia heavily relies on the hydro-powered Kariba Dam.

One of the worst famines in decades could be underway in Sudan, aid workers warn.

Most of the passengers were women and children on their way to celebrate the Muslim festival of Mawlid.

The crackdown was prompted by complaints from parents worried about their children getting addicted.

Aliou Cisse leaves his role as coach of Senegal's national side after a nine-and-a-half-year spell which included winning the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations.

A bail hearing is due in the case of two black women allegedly shot and fed to pigs by a white farmer.

Fresh diplomatic attempts to negotiate a cessation of hostilities have failed to make progress.

The boats sank just 150 metres (492 feet) from a Djibouti beach, authorities say.

Kenya's deputy president, who faces impeachment, branded himself as "the truthful man".