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Africa Eco Race 2017: Gev Sella secures the lead in stage 9

Sport

Africa Eco Race nears its climax after battle of the Mauritanian Dunes

Disaster struck for some of the best-placed competitors with just four days to go in the Africa Eco race.

Sport

Sands take their toll on Africa Eco racers

The Africa Eco race took its field of competitors into the Mauritanian dunes on Monday.

Sport

Africa Eco race: Paolo Ceci clinches stage 6

Italy’s Paolo Ceci produced a stunning performance to clinch the 6th stage of the Africa Eco race on Sunday.

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Sport

Africa Eco Race: Agoshkov and Magnaldi win stage five

Russia’s Dmitry Agoshkov celebrated his first victory on this year’s Africa Eco Race.

Sport

Mahrez named African Footballer of the Year

Leicester City forward Riyad Mahrez has been named African Football of the year.

Cult

Fashion in the face of financial problems in Africa

Designers in Africa have seen their craft suffer during an economic crisis which has hit the continent.

Ivory Coast

Ex-soldiers seize Ivory Coast city of Bouake

UPDATE: Defence Minister says soldiers demanding salary increases and bonus payments were behind the seizure of Ivory Coast’s second largest city of Bouake.

Sport

Sella extends lead in Africa Eco Race with stage four victory

Gev Teddy Sella strengthened his grip on the overall race lead of the Africa Eco Race on Thursday when he won stage four for his third triumph this edition.

Sport

Sella strikes again in Africa Eco Race

Gev Teddy Sella claimed his second win of this year’s Africa Eco Race after winning stage three which took the competitors from Tagounite to Assa in Southern…

Target

Morocco: a business bridge to Africa

Morocco has been taking solid steps to apply its development strategy to improve its economic growth and presence in regional markets.

Sport

Africa Eco Race: Ceci wins stage two and takes over race lead

Stage two of this year’s Africa Eco Race took the competitors over 393 kilometres from Moulay Domain to Tagounite in Southwest Morocco.

Sport

Africa Eco race: Sella and Vasilyev steal the limelight

The Africa Eco race is back.

Nigeria

Nigeria: Boko Haram driven from Sambisa forest by army

Nigeria’s army has driven Boko Haram militants from their last camp in the northeastern Sambisa forest the group’s, the president Muhammadu Buhari has said in a…

World

Nigeria on the brink of famine

North east Nigeria is facing a humanitarian crisis where 55,000 people at risk of dying because they have no food. Aid Zone visits Maiduguri where some malnutrition cases are critical.

Kenya

Giraffes "vulnerable to extinction"

Giraffes have become the latest animal to be considered as being “vulnerable” to extinction.

Target

Burkina Faso wants to share its gold wealth

We are a hundred meters underground, in the tunnels of the Bagassi gold mine.

Cult

Rabat beats to sound of Visa for Music

Among the many artists at this year’s Visa for Music in Rabat, a fair for music professionals from across Africa and the Middle East, was Guinea’s Sekouba Bambino, one of West Africa’s most popular…

Economy

Fair finance or funny money? Scepticism greets Zimbabwe's new bond notes

With no national currency since 2009, Zimbabwe launches dollar-backed bond notes to cope with cash crisis.

Cameroon

Anglophone protester killed in Cameroon

One person has been killed and around 100 people arrested after demonstrators clashed with security forces in an English speaking city in Cameroon.