Officials say Nato’s bombing campaign in Libya, now in its seventh month, will continue despite the collapse of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime.
kenyan Maasai are seeking to end female circumcision, an age-old custom now frayed by health risks and new laws.
Zimbabwe lawmakers have called on the police to release the outcome of a probe into the death of former army chief Solomon Mujuru who was killed in a mysterious inferno nearly two months ago.
The leader of Burundi's National Liberation Forces, Agathon Rwasa, planned the attack last month on a bar that killed 39 people, the intelligence services allege.
Zimbabwe's president says he cannot set the 2012 election date because he is not in control.
Like many residents of Tripoli, Wissam Rihil rejoiced at the ousting of Muammar Gaddafi, but is now fearful of a return to the nepotism and corruption that characterised his regime.
Uganda's first openly gay bar has closed in the latest setback for gays in the conservative country.
South Sudan has sold 22 million barrels of oil to international buyers through the north’s Port Sudan export terminal since independence, at an estimated value of $2.14bn, the oil ministry says.
INJURED: A supporter of Democratic Republic of Congo's "Union for Democracy and Social Progress" party, who was allegedly arrested and beaten by police, remains on the ground injured as fellow protesters stand around him. (Dubourthoumieu Gwenn, AFP)
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After just two weeks in office, Zambia's president has replaced the country's police chief, top anti-corruption official, central bank governor, state utility CEO and scores of lower-ranking public servants.
The Somali suicide bomber who killed more than 100 people, including students seeking scholarship was a school dropout who had declared people should forget about secular education.
Zimbabwe will import a new batch of its adopted currency the US dollar to replace soiled bills and ease problems of coin shortages, a report says.
The UN says the death toll has gone over 100 after a suicide car bombing that targeted a government compound in Somalia’s war-ravaged capital.
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Rebels in eastern DRC killed 10 people in two separate attacks on vehicles travelling in the province of South Kivu this week, local government says.
An international rights group says 13 military leaders from both sides of Ivory Coast’s political divide committed war crimes during months of postelection violence in the West African nation.
Algerian police have briefly detained 17 people as they prepared to hold a rally commemorating bloody pro-democracy protests of 1988, organisers say.
Gambian opposition parties are accusing the election commission of compromising November presidential polls by refusing to lengthen an 11-day election campaign.
The Archbishop of Canterbury is set to say Mass in Harare, but may never set foot on his church's property, which has been seized by a renegade bishop aligned with President Robert Mugabe.
The leader of Egypt’s ruling generals says the army has no interest in staying in power for a long time, but instead the military council won’t step down until it has "fulfilled its commitments".
Six Egyptian presidential candidates have called on the ruling military to hand over power to an elected president by the end of April after a shortened parliamentary poll timetable.
The US nominee for ambassador to South Sudan has called on the new state and its former rulers in north Sudan to reach an oil-sharing deal quickly to avert economic stresses.
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