Facebook is launching a "community hub" and training program in Nigeria, its biggest market in Africa.

Kenya's long distance runner Edna Kiplagat is one of the most accomplished women marathoners of the past decade

Soon after Zimbabwe's army confined President Robert Mugabe to his palatial Harare home this week -- allegedly for his safety -- it was announced in Luanda that Angola's new President, João Lourenço, had relieved Isabel dos Santos of her position as head of the state-run oil company Sonangol.

Zimbabwe's presumptive leader is due to return to Harare Wednesday to replace ousted president Robert Mugabe, who resigned under pressure from his own party and the military Tuesday.

We were standing in the square outside Parliament in downtown Harare on Tuesday when word started spreading. A woman ran up to me and asked, "Is he gone? Is he really gone?"