Four UN peacekeepers are shot dead and one injured in Sudan's Darfur region after a peacekeeper opens fire.

The fourth wife of the South African President Jacob Zuma says entering into a polygamous marriage was a personal choice.

The UN says a helicopter from its peacekeeping mission has been shot down by the South Sudan army, killing all four crew, but the government says the cause is not clear.

A decision by Kenya to move all asylum-seekers and refugees out of urban areas and into overcrowded camps is unlawful, Amnesty International says.

Congo have been handed a 3-0 World Cup qualifying win, after Fifa ruled that Burkina Faso fielded an ineligible player.

Clashes erupt in the city of Alexandria on the eve of the second leg of voting in Egypt's controversial constitutional referendum.

Zambia striker Jacob Mulenga says he is close to securing a move to the Premier League.

South Africa's fourth first lady on her relationship with Jacob Zuma

Sharks, skateboarders, warships and much more

The South African President, Jacob Zuma, has come in for a fair deal of criticism, not least because of the amount of money spent on his residences and his four wives. His fourth wife Lerato Mbele talked about her duties.

It is more than four decades since the end of the civil war in Nigeria which saw the army fighting to stop the east of the country, known as Biafra, from breaking away.

Al-Qaeda, or an allied group, was probably behind the kidnapping of a French engineer in Nigeria, the French president says.

At least 28 people have been killed in fresh clashes between rival farming communities on the Kenyan coast, police say.

The new Libyan government in Tripoli is prepared to open all files relating to the Lockerbie bombing, the country's ambassador to the UK confirms.

The UN Security Council has authorised an African-led military force to try to oust Islamists from northern Mali.

The Biafrans who still want to leave Nigeria