Kenyan must rank inside top 400 by cut-off date to compete in Paris, but, like other African players, resources to help fund her career are limited
Africa
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Country’s youngest ever leader faces ‘massive expectation’ from voters
Ruling party rival concedes defeat as preliminary results point to big win for candidate recently released from prison
Down woman set up travel company Boutique Souk, then moved to Marrakesh and, with her French husband, transformed a rundown farm
Outgoing president’s decision to delay elections triggered street protests and international condemnation
Minister underlines the importance of Irish aid to beleaguered country
Campaigners say overturning ban would undo decades of work to end the FGM, a centuries-old ritual tied up in ideas of sexual purity, obedience and control
Temperatures exceed 40 degrees in country where climate change has ‘amplified’ impact
An Irish association is helping to treat and prevent a childbirth injury that is too common in Angola and ensure that women affected by it are no longer left behind
Ruling party and opposition joined forces on legislation which legalises discrimination and criminalises financing LGBTQ groups
Heavy gunfire heard in capital of N’Djamena near headquarters of opposition party after several killed in earlier clashes
Senegal has long been considered an example of stability in West Africa
After 30 years in power, the party of president Cyril Ramaphosa is in danger of losing this year’s general election in South Africa - a prospect that raises questions for the party and the region
President Macky Sall’s decision to postpone election by 10 months has been described as an ‘institutional coup’
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