The family of jailed Egyptian-British hunger striker Alaa Abd el-Fattah said on Tuesday they had not heard from him since he had been due to stop drinking water two days ago, and the United Nations human rights chief warned his life was in great dang...

Kenya Airways pilots will end their days-long strike and return to work on Wednesday morning, their union said, after a court ordered staff to resume operations in a breakthrough for the beleaguered airline.

Retired police officers and soldiers are making a comeback in Zimbabwe, working for private security companies as armed robberies spiral out of control.

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Malawi is approaching its most volatile period in the fight against cholera with the onset of the rainy season in a few weeks and unpredictable weather patterns, which will result in natural disasters such as flooding.

Uganda will shorten the school term by two weeks to reduce daily contact amongst students and help curb the spread of Ebola, the education minister said on Tuesday.

A large hydrocarbon deposit has been discovered off the shore of Angola's capital Luanda at a site operated by American firm ExxonMobil, the country's national agency for oil, gas and biofuels announced Monday.

Ramon Abbas frequently flaunted his lavish lifestyle on his now-deactivated Instagram account, posing in designer clothing with luxury vehicles and jets.

A group of four widows who had sought to hold Shell liable for damages in the Netherlands after their anti-oil activist husbands were executed by the Nigerian government in 1995 have cancelled further legal proceedings, their lawyer said on Monday.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has admitted to violating its neighbour Rwanda's airspace, but hasn't apologised. In response, Rwanda described the airspace violation as 'a dangerous and serious provocation'.

Gunmen in Nigeria kidnapped at least 80 people and killed 11 others in separate attacks in the northwest, traditional leaders and residents said on Monday, in the latest attacks by armed gangs that have been preying on villages, schools and highways.

Zimbabwe on Monday announced the launch of its first nano satellite into space in a bid to help collect data to monitor disasters, boost agriculture and enhance mineral mapping.

Military commanders of the Tigray People's Liberation Front and the Ethiopian National Defence Force are meeting on Monday in Nairobi, Kenya, as part of the African Union-led cessation of hostilities agreement reached in South Africa last week.

African climate change activists will call for a formula to reverse the continent's marginalisation in the climate change debate.

President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda revealed on Sunday that his air force had attacked and destroyed an insurgency camp of the rebel group the Allied Democratic Forces in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Shares in Namibian financial services, property and mining company Trustco have been suspended from the JSE after the high court dismissed its appeal against the local bourse's decision.

Grieving Tanzanians paid emotional tribute Monday to 19 people killed when a passenger plane plunged into Lake Victoria in the country's deadliest air crash in decades.

The latest attack comes within days of a suicide bombing by al-Shabab near a military base in the capital, Mogadishu.

Kenya Airways cancelled most flights on Monday as a pilots' strike entered its third day, with thousands of travellers stranded and the government threatening disciplinary action if staff don't return to work.

Tade Balogun times his commute like a military operation.