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18.05.2024 03:51 Spraying money - flinging cash at the happy couple - is a highlight of many ceremonies but is illegal.

17.05.2024 23:10 Nigeria's women's minister says she has filed a court order to stop the ceremony planned for next week.

17.05.2024 23:10 Former boxing world champion Lovemore Ndou compares himself to Nelson Mandela before he runs for election in South Africa.

17.05.2024 17:40 Kenenisa Bekele will face fellow all-time great Eliud Kipchoge at the Olympics, 21 years on from their first meeting in a final.

17.05.2024 17:40 Israel's lawyers push back against South Africa, which is trying to get its Rafah offensive stopped.

17.05.2024 13:30 Former boxing world champion Lovemore Ndou compares himself to Nelson Mandela before he runs for election in South Africa.

17.05.2024 13:30 The ICJ ruling has come under intense scrutiny, centring on the word "plausible". What did the court mean?

17.05.2024 08:30 Lebohang Kganye has won the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize for her exhibition Haufi nyana? I've come to take you home

17.05.2024 08:30 Scientists say the ancient wonders are likely to have been built along a now-dried up branch of the River Nile.

17.05.2024 03:20 A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent.

16.05.2024 23:10 It says Israel must be forced to stop its operation in Rafah, in a fresh bid to the UN's top court.

16.05.2024 23:10 Officials have arrested a 61-year-old man suspected of keeping him prisoner.

16.05.2024 12:50 A suspected arsonist sprays a mosque with petrol and sets it on fire over a family dispute, police say.

16.05.2024 08:40 Nelson Shardey now faces a 10-year wait for "settlement" and a bill running into thousands of pounds.

16.05.2024 03:30 A Kenyan mother's desperate attempts to save her son who is on death row in Saudi Arabia.