Two explosions near the state governor's office shook Nigeria's southern oil city of Warri on Monday during amnesty talks, minutes after a bomb threat from the region's main militant group, witnesses said. The Movement for the Niger...
Private minibus drivers barricaded Soweto with burnt tyres on Monday to protest a new public transport system being introduced in Johannesburg ahead of the football World Cup, police said. "There is a protest of tax...
The leader of Burundi's ex-rebel Hutus, Leonard Nyangoma, was chosen by his party on Sunday as presidential candidate for a June election, according to an AFP journalist. Nyangoma, 58, heads the National Council for the Defence of Democracy...
Two French aid workers abducted in the Central African Republic and held for four months were on Sunday freed in Darfur, the Sudanese region gripped by civil war and a wave of kidnappings.
A Rwandan who has lived many years abroad returned to his country. Upon his arrival, he realises: "But this is not Rwanda. This is another country!" A joke I heard at dinner with a journalist from the New Times. They are not known...
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela on Friday said she never granted an interview to a journalist who quoted her in a British newspaper as saying her ex-husband Nelson Mandela had "let down" the blacks. "I did not g...
“My hands were tied together, my head covered with a black plastic bag… they poured cold water on me and the four men from the State Guard started beating me… until I became unconscious”, says ex-Gambian parliament...
What do you get if you cross Dutch reality tv show, Big Brother, with environmental activism? The answer is Desert Warriors, a new African TV programme. Desert Warriors is a Nigerian television series which aims to draw attention t...
President Barack Obama on Thursday named 10 charities to share his $1.4 million Nobel Peace Prize, with causes ranging from wounded veterans to Haiti's earthquake survivors and education for minorities. "These organizations do extraord...