Women around Ghana's Lake Volta are being trained as pilots and primary healthcare workersin an attempt to fight the water-borne disease schistosomiasis.
Kenya welcomes the results of the London conference on Somalia but wants to know where the boats are. Eritrea isn't so happy. Where is Joseph Kony? Why should Nigerians pay more for power?
Of the two coaches leading their teams into the final, François Zahoui is the more inexperienced. At 51, this is his first Africa Cup of Nations while his Zambia counterpart, Hervé Renard, is into his third competition.
At the 2008 Beijing Olympics Michael Phelps had the music of Jay-Z, Lil Wayne and Young Jeezy surging through his iPod earphones as he strode towards the starting blocks and went on to win a ...
27 April 1993 is sewn into Zambia ’s collective memory as the day a golden generation of footballers died in a plane crash just outside Libreville airport.
The adage goes that travel broadens the mind. However my experiences of flights between match sites during an Africa Cup of Nations run counter to that saying.