A car bomb outside a police base in the Egyptian city of Ismailiya has killed a police officer and wounded at least 35 people, officials say.

The Democratic Republic of Congo's president has signed a peace deal with the M23 rebel movement his forces defeated last month, Kenya's presidential spokesman says.

Harambee Stars celebrate Kenya's 50th anniversary of independence by lifting the 2013 Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup in Nairobi

BBC News website Africa editor Joseph Winter asked colleague Pumza Fihlani for a lesson in how to pronounce some key words in Xhosa.

Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta calls for Africa to be treated equally on the world stage as his country marks 50 years of independence from British rule.

At least 20 people in one village in Madagascar have died in an outbreak of the bubonic plague.

Today marks 50 years since Kenya gained independence from Great Britain.

The owners of the firm which supplied a "fake" sign language interpreter to the Mandela memorial event have vanished, a South African minister says.

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan's office hits back at ex-leader Olusegun Obasanjo for a "provocative" letter condemning his leadership and telling him not to seek re-election.

Rwanda refused a formal request to help a British police investigation into genocide suspects living in the UK, the BBC has learned.

A grenade was thrown at a van carrying British tourists in Mombasa but failed to explode, Kenyan police say.

Pumza Fihlani's vivid account of seeing the man who made her life possible