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Thuli Madonsela report: Jacob Zuma should repay $20 million for upgrades to Nkandla home
Public protector Thuli Madonsela - South Africa's top corruption fighter - has condemned a newspaper for publishing extracts from her report, which allegedly says...
Amadou Sanogo: Mali coup leader arrested and charged with murders
Mali's former coup leader General Amadou Sanogo has been charged with "murders and assassinations", the justice ministry has said. Armed troops went to Amadou Sanogo's...
Mauritania elections 2013: Poll boycotted by all radical opposition parties
Mauritania has decided to hold parliamentary and local elections - the first since a military coup five years ago – despite opposition’s boycott. The party...
South African papers defy Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla house photo ban
Most of South African newspapers have published images of President Jacob Zuma's private residence in Nkandla, defying a government warning that this would break...
South Africa mall roof collapse kills one and traps dozens in Tongaat
A roof collapsed at the construction site of a South African shopping mall killing one person, officials say. About 50 others are feared trapped at...
Nelson Mandela still unable to talk
Nelson Mandela is still unable to speak but uses facial expressions to communicate, the former South African president’s ex-wife has told a local newspaper. Winnie...
Guinea Election 2013: Supreme Court upholds election results
Supreme Court in Guinea has upheld September's election results which saw President Alpha Conde's RPG party winning the most seats. Opposition parties have tried to...
Gambia cuts diplomatic ties with Taiwan
Gambia has announced that it has severed diplomatic ties with Taiwan. President Yahya Jammeh's office said the move was for reasons of "national strategic interest". Gambia...
Tropical Cyclone 03A kills at least 140 people in north-eastern Somalia
Tropical Cyclone 03A that hit Somalia's north-eastern Puntland region at the weekend has killed at least 140 people, and the number could rise to...
Congo: M23 rebel commander Sultani Makenga surrenders in Uganda
Sultani Makenga - the commander of the M23 rebel group in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo - has surrendered in Uganda, new reports...
Democratic Republic of Congo claims victory over M23 rebels
The Democratic Republic of Congo has claimed victory over M23 rebels in the east of the country. A government spokesman said the last remaining rebels...
Four men charged over Nairobi’s Westgate mall attack
Four men have been charged over Nairobi’s Westgate mall attack, in which more than 60 people were killed, police say. The four foreigners have been...
RFI journalists kidnapped in Mali
Two French journalists have been kidnapped in the northern Mali town of Kidal. The governor of the region, Colonel Adama Kamissoko, told Reuters news agency...
Pirate Trails Report: Horn of Africa pirates netted more than $400 M between 2005 and 2012
Horn of Africa pirates netted more than $400 million in ransom money between 2005 and 2012, a new World Bank and UN report says. Pirate...
Robert Mugabe insult law declared unconstitutional by Zimbabwe’s highest court
Zimbabwe's Constitutional Court has declared unconstitutional a law which makes it a crime to insult the president. Prosecutors should not be overzealous about charging people...
Niger: Bodies of 87 Sahara migrants found near Algerian border
The bodies of 87 people who died of thirst after their vehicles broke down as they tried to cross the Sahara have been found...
Westgate mall attack: Kenyan soldiers jailed for looting
Two soldiers have been sacked and jailed for looting during last month's attack on Nairobi’s Westgate shopping centre, Kenyan army chief Julius Karangi has...
Niger: 35 migrants traversing Sahara desert die of thirst in Agadez
Thirty five migrants traversing the Sahara desert on their way to Europe have died of thirst in Niger, officials say. Rhissa Feltou, the mayor of...
Madagascar holds first presidential election since 2009 coup
Madagascar voters are going to the polls in the first election since the military-backed coup in 2009. Thirty-three candidates are contesting the election, which has...
Nairobi mall attack: Westgate CCTV footage shows Kenyan soldiers looting goods
Nairobi shopping center’s security camera footage shows what appear to be Kenyan security forces looting goods during last month's siege of the Westgate mall. In...
Kenya: Two charred bodies recovered from Nairobi’s Westgate mall
Kenyan authorities have recovered two charred bodies from Nairobi's Westgate shopping centre on Thursday. The two bodies are "highly likely" to be two of the...
Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow identified as Norwegian suspect in Nairobi mall attack
Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow has been identified as the Norwegian suspect in Kenya's Westgate shopping centre attack, the BBC revealed. Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow, 23, is a...
African Union Summit demands Uhuru Kenyatta ICC case deferral
A deferral of The Hague trial of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta - due to start in November – has been demanded at the African...
Ali Zeidan’s kidnap was an “attempted coup”
Libya’s PM Ali Zeidan has said his brief kidnap this week was an "attempted coup", blaming his political opponents for the attack. In a TV...
Ali Zeidan calls for calm after being freed from militiamen custody
Libya’s Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has called for "rationality and wisdom" after being freed from the custody of militiamen. Ali Zeidan was abducted from a...
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