Blast fishing leaves Tanzania’s coral reefs in rubble

The World Health Organisation says more than 1,900 people have now died in West Africa's Ebola outbreak, 40% of them in the past three weeks.

A profile of Somalia's militant Islamist leader Ahmed Godane

Fifa will suspend Nigeria from world football on Monday if Chris Giwa does not give up his claim to be Nigeria FA president.

Four Somalis being held in prison in Kenya on Westgate-related terrorism charges say they have been beaten for refusing to wear prison uniforms.

Islamist militants in Nigeria capture a border town near Cameroon, witnesses say, amid a warning that the country could be breaking up like Iraq.

Patients in Kenya may soon start receiving live maggots as a treatment after promising results from a pilot study using the age-old practice

Ghana striker Majeed Waris says Trabzonspor's challenge for trophies in Turkey and in Europe convinced him to join the club.

The British Deputy High Commissioner in Lagos, Peter Carter, dies after a suspected heart attack in a Nigerian airport.

A report by the campaign group One blames corruption for 3.6 million deaths every year. Here is the story in 15 seconds.

Somalia's government offers an amnesty to fighters of Islamist group al-Shabab, amid uncertainty over whether its leader survived a US air strike.

Lesotho's prime minister returns home after fleeing the mountain kingdom to neighbouring South Africa on Saturday, alleging there had been a coup.

A vehicle belonging to the Kenyan president's security convoy, which was stolen last week in Nairobi, is found in Uganda, officials confirm.

The first British person to contract Ebola during the outbreak in West Africa has made a full recovery.

The launch of the new series of Africa's Big Brother is delayed by a "devastating" blaze at its purpose-built studios in Johannesburg.

A Libyan jet crashes in Tobruk, near the seat of parliament, causing a huge inferno and killing a child and at least two other people, officials say.

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