At least five people died in violent clashes in a suburb of Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, on Wednesday. Fighting broke out...
Kenya's Tourism Minister Najib Balala has told the BBC more than 70 elephants have died in the last year as...
The US State Department says it has determined that Paul Rusesabagina, the subject of Oscar-nominated film Hotel Rwanda, was "wrongfully...
At least four migrants have drowned and another 10 are missing after their boat sank off the coast of Tunisia....
The UK Home Office says legal challenges against its plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda have not delayed...
The authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo say they have seized 1.5 tonnes of elephant ivory - one of...
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says he advised his arts and culture minister to cancel a $1.4m (£1m) flag monument...
Eleven soldiers in Burkina Faso have been killed during an attack on an army base in Madjoari in the east...
A Kenyan MP who is accused of forging his academic papers did not sit his final year exams at the...
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni says his talks with Kenyan presidential candidate Raila Odinga at State House in Entebbe touched on...