The former Commonwealth Youth Games champion was content to sit behind team-mate Alice Aprot for most of the race at the Stephen Keshi Stadium.

She then kicked clear of her compatriot with a lap to go to win in 31min 31.17sec.

Aprot took the silver medal in 31:36.12 and Ethiopia's Gete Alemayehu a distant bronze in 32:10.68.

"We decided to work together so we could break away from the others, because we weren't sure about their kick," the 25-year-old winner, who took silver at the Commonwealth Games in April, said. 

"I didn't have a good kick there so I've been working a lot on my speed since then."

Burkina Faso's Hugues Zango produced another of the day's best performances to win the men's triple jump with a best leap of 17.11 metres. 

Godrey Mokoena of South Africa had to settle for silver in 16.83m and there was bronze for Algeria's Yasser Triki with 16.78m.

South Africa reached the top step of the podium in the men's 110m hurdles final.

Antonio Alkana won with 13.51sec to finish 0.36 seconds clear of Abejoye Oyeniyi.

Wellington Zaza took the bronze medal for Liberia in 13.88.

Egypt's Mostafa Elgamel won the hammer with 73.50m to beat compatriot Islam Mohamed.

He was second with 70.32 as Hassan Abdelgawad completed a clean sweep with 69.90.

Nwanaga Kelechi took a home win for Nigeria in the women's javelin with 56.96m.

South Africa's Jo-Ane Van Dyk took the silver medal with 53.72m and Uganda's Josephine LaLaw bronze with 51.33m.

On a day where no single country dominated, Mohamed Amine Romdhana of Tunisia won the pole vault with a best clearance of 5.20m.

Valco Van Wyk of South Africa managed 5.10m for the silver and medal there was also Tunisian bronze for Mejdi Chehata, who cleared the same height but was pushed down to third on countback.