A fragile ceasefire appeared to be holding in South Sudan's capital Juba after four days of gun battles that have left

South Sudan is "back to war", a spokesman for the vice-president has told the BBC, as rebel factions clash and hundreds are reported killed.

Gambia and Tanzania bans child marriage, with tough penalties for those who breach the rulings.

A pile-up on a busy highway outside the Ugandan capital Kampala left at least 20 people dead yesterday and injured

An Ivory Coast professor, who was photographed carrying a student's baby in class in a widely shared image, says being a mother should not stop women getting an education.

At least 18 civilians were killed when a roadside bomb went off yesterday in Somalia's Lafole town, southwest of the

A single dose of an experimental vaccine can protect mice against the Zika virus, raising renewed hope of a vaccine for

A South African court yesterday threw out President Jacob Zuma's attempt to appeal against a ruling that he should

Algeria temporarily blocked access to social networks on Sunday to prevent cheating after leaked papers forced hundred of thousands of students to resit high school final exams.

Niger says the bodies of 34 migrants, including 20 children, have been found in the Sahara Desert near the border with Algeria.

Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates, speaking in front of chickens pecking and clucking in a New York City skyscraper,

Liberia's health ministry yesterday said the country was free of Ebola, meaning there are now no known cases of the deadly

Shabaab fighters attacked an Ethiopian army base in central Somalia yesterday, in the latest raid targeting foreign soldiers deployed as part of an African Union force in the country.

Friends of a man extradited to Italy on Tuesday on people smuggling charges say police have the wrong man.

Already boasting one of the cleanest urban centers in Africa, authorities in Rwanda's capital want thousands of street hawkers to form registered co-operatives or find formal work as they try to raise taxes and make the city even tidier, the mayor said.

One of the missing Chibok girls has been found in Nigeria, activists say, the first to be rescued since their capture two years ago.

Two Bangladeshis on UN peacekeeping mission were killed and five injured in a storm in Mali.

Nelson Mandela's arrest in 1962 was a result of a tip-off from an agent of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), a report says.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari says he is not demanding "any apology from anybody" after UK Prime Minister David Cameron labelled his country "fantastically corrupt".

A seven-month-old girl is rescued from the debris of a building that collapsed four days ago in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.