Burkina Faso army has announced emergency measures - including the formation of a transitional government - after a day of…
Burkina Faso protesters angry at plans to allow President Blaise Compaore to extend his 27-year-rule have set fire to parliament.…
Liberia, the country hardest hit in the Ebola outbreak, is seeing a decline in the spread of infections, the World…
Zambia’s President Michael Sata has passed away at the age of 77 after receiving treatment for an undisclosed illness, the…
Prosecutors are going to appeal against the conviction and sentence given to South African athlete Oscar Pistorius for killing his…
Senzo Meyiwa, South Africa's football captain and goalkeeper, has been shot dead in Johannesburg, police say. Senzo Meyiwa, 27, was…
In a recent interview, Reeva Steenkamp’s mother has said that it was bad luck her daughter met Oscar Pistorius as…
Tunisians are voting to elect the country’s first full parliament under a new constitution passed earlier this year. The election…
Mali has confirmed the first case of Ebola in the country. The Malian government said a two-year-old girl had tested…
Boko Haram militants have reportedly abducted dozens of women and girls from two villages in Nigeria's north-eastern Adamawa state. The…