The family of former South African leader Nelson Mandela is overwhelmed with support
Former South African leader Nelson Mandela's health is improving, but he is still in serious condition, President Jacob Zuma said in a statement Thursday.
Former South African leader Nelson Mandela's health is improving, but he is still in serious condition, President Jacob Zuma said in a statement Thursday.
Rebels aided by South Sudan bombed an oil pipeline in the disputed district of Abyei, a Sudanese army official said on Thursday.
Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said Thursday he will contest President Robert Mugabe's "unilateral and unconstitutional" decision to call for a general election on July 31.
Former South African leader Nelson Mandela was "responding better to treatment" on Wednesday, President Jacob Zuma told the country's Parliament.
Woodpecker. Spider species. Nuclear particle. For anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, the varied list of namesakes keeps growing.
Yityish Aynaw has gone from an Ethiopian orphan, to an Israeli beauty queen set to shine on the world stage.
A vehicle belonging to Italian diplomats appeared to be the target of a homemade bomb in the capital of Tripoli, the Libyan state news agency reported Tuesday.
Here is a look at the life of Nelson Mandela, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former president of South Africa.
Authorities increased security around a Pretoria hospital where former South African leader Nelson Mandela remained in intensive care.
From samba and carnival to food, music and religion, African culture is everywhere in Brazil.
At least 28 people died and 55 were wounded Saturday in clashes between protesters and members of a Libyan government-affiliated militia operating in Benghazi.
Former South African leader Nelson Mandela remained in "serious but stable condition" Monday
Zia Sachedina, a designer born in Kenya is proving a hit in the U.S. with his Africa-inspired jewelry.
The president of Sudan ordered the shutdown of an oil pipeline running from South Sudan, explaining that he didn't want his country's neighbor to use oil funds to arm "mercenaries, traitors and agents."
Former South African President Nelson Mandela is in serious condition after the recurrence of a lung infection, the country's presidential office said Saturday.
Former South African President Nelson Mandela is in serious condition after the recurrence of a lung infection, the country's presidential office said Saturday.
Former South African President Nelson Mandela has completed his recovery from a lung infection and gallstone surgery, a spokesman said Sunday.
Here's a look at the life of Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee Olympic sprinter from South Africa.
Decades after the end of colonial rule, thousands of elderly Kenyans got a compensation package and an apology from the UK government for years of torture.
Photos and film shot on rare infrared film show war-torn DR Congo as you've never seen it before.
African warlord Joseph Kony and his struggling militia are poaching elephant ivory to get funds, report says
The business of the Oscar Pistorius hearing lasted some 20 minutes -- not that long when it comes to court procedure, but it is the ongoing scrutiny and widespread international attention that is bothering many South Africans.
An Egyptian court sentenced several dozen workers for non-governmental organizations, including Americans, to jail Tuesday.
A U.S. State Department initiative that has yielded valuable intelligence by paying out large sums has set its sights on terror groups in North and West Africa.
During a swift pre-trial hearing Tuesday, a South African judge delayed Oscar Pistorius' murder case for two months
Newly-revealed photographs of Reeva Steenkamp show the South African beauty as a young aspiring model, and as a star cover girl, just months before her tragic death.
Oscar Pistorius' family "shaken" by photos that purportedly show the bathroom where his girlfriend was killed.
Oscar Pistorius is a heartbroken man who has to live with the fact that he killed the love of his life, his uncle has told CNN in an exclusive interview.
Photographs purportedly showing the blood-spattered bathroom where Olympian Oscar Pistorius fatally shot girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp have emerged, apparently showing the scene of the killing for the first time.
Egypt's highest court Sunday invalidated the nation's upper house of parliament and a panel that drew up the constitution, state media reported.
Zimbabwe's highest court Friday ordered President Robert Mugabe to ensure the African country holds elections by the end of July.
More than two decades after the death of the systematic racial discrimination policy of apartheid, a community living southeast of South Africa's capital Pretoria is being accused of trying to keep its racist ideals alive.
An Ethiopian scientist tells the story of how he discovered a 3-million-year-old fossil known as "the world's oldest child."
For the second time in five months, Timbuktu's treasured collection of ancient manuscripts is under threat.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry criticized Nigeria's human rights record but defended the government's right to defend itself against terror groups.
"This shouldn't be happening" -- these were the words of a visibly nervous and frustrated sheriff of the court as he rang the outside bell and knocked at the gate belonging to a woman still considered by many in South Africa as the "mother of the nation."
Ugandan artist Ruganzu Bruno has created an incredible children's playground built entirely from trash.
Nineteen soldiers and six assailants were killed in vehicle bombs and attacks on a uranium mine and an army barracks about 200 kilometers apart in Niger.
Why was Oscar Pistorius released on bail?
South African model Reeva Steenkamp was killed early Thursday in a shooting at the home of Olympian Oscar Pistorius, her boyfriend.
An ongoing "massive deployment" against insurgent groups in northern Nigeria by the nation's special forces killed at least 14 suspected terrorists and captured 20 others, according to a statement released Sunday by Nigeria's defense ministry.
One protester was killed as Tunisian security forces clashed Sunday with supporters of a hard-line Islamist group who were holding a conference despite a government ban.
At least 10 suspected terrorists were killed and 65 others captured as Nigerian troops continued their "massive deployment" against insurgent groups.
At least 20 insurgents were killed Friday as Nigeria's military carried out an aerial bombardment of suspected Islamist camps, a Defense Ministry spokesman said.
Albinos in Tanzania have been killed because some people believe their body parts bring good luck. But one albino is fighting back.
The Elman Peace and Human Rights Center, the first rape crisis center in Somalia, is part of an effort to halt the sexual violence plaguing the country.
A potent, bloody blast this week near a Benghazi hospital was likely an accident, a Libyan official said Thursday.
In Sierra Leone there is a ghostly slave trade post, from which thousands of slaves were shipped to the Americas.
Nigeria says it is deploying troops and resources in conjunction with the country's state of emergency.
The death toll in the Rwandan building collapse now stands at six, national police said Wednesday.
Nigeria's leader declared states of emergency for 3 states, blaming "terrorists" for "fear ... and a near breakdown of law and order in parts of the country."
Thieves scaled down a rope into a stadium in Johannesburg after it hosted a Justin Bieber gig to steal the contents of a walk-in safe, South African police said.
Three workers were killed and 21 others injured Tuesday in Rwanda when a building collapsed, police said.
Growing DNA evidence and archeological finds suggest we all started in Africa before migrating around the world.
Children were among the victims Monday when a car bomb blew up near a hospital in the Libyan city of Benghazi, a security official told state TV.
A female soldier roughly passes her hands over the waistband of my jeans as a finishing touch to the most intimate pat down I've ever received. But we're not done yet, a metal detector is then passed in unusually close contact with my skin. Up down, over and around.
An event organized by TEDxKhartoum in Sudan was canceled by security authorities, organizers say.
Scores of police officers have been killed during attacks in Nasarawa state in central Nigeria, the Nigerian Police High Command said Thursday.
Ugandan midwife Esther Madudu is fronting AMREF's "Stand Up For African Mothers" campaign, an initiative aiming to train an additional 15,000 midwifes by 2015.
Here's an in-depth look at the life of Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Zambian police rearrested two men this week on charges of engaging in homosexual acts "against the order of nature," a rights group said.
Portuguese aid worker Pedro Matos launched The Darfur Sartorialist project after being amazed by the fashion he saw in Sudan.
Despite the passage of a law banning Gadhafi-era officials from Libya's government, armed groups continued their blockade of two ministry buildings in Tripoli on Monday, this time demanding the dismissal of Prime Minister Ali Zeidan.
A suicide bomber drove a car packed with explosives into a convoy carrying a Qatari delegation in Mogadishu Sunday, killing at least eight people, police said.
Lawmakers in Libya passed a law on Sunday banning senior Gadhafi government officials from holding official posts.
Several Yemeni men belonging to al Qaeda took part in the terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi last September, several sources told CNN.
More than 60 people were killed after a gold mine collapsed this week in the Sudanese region of Darfur.
In the 1960s a Zambian teacher hatched a far-fetched plan to go to space. His story has now been re-imagined in stunning photos, as The Afronauts.
Between 2010 and 2012, some 260,000 people died in famine in Somalia -- and the world was too slow to react, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Somalia said.
A video of a frail and unamused looking Nelson Mandela surrounded by South African President Jacob Zuma and other officials has prompted cries of political exploitation by the government.
Traditional Maasai living in one of the world's most famous wildlife centers are pitting themselves against the government in a fight for land.
After making millions working for Microsoft in the U.S. Patrick Awuah founded a Ashesi University in Ghana, to teach Africa' next generation of leaders.
Armed men in trucks with anti-aircraft guns mounted on them occupied the Libyan Justice Ministry in Tripoli on Tuesday, forcing ministry staff to leave.
Former South African President Nelson Mandela is "in good shape," the country's president said, but new images of the ex-leader seemed to suggest otherwise.
Armed men in trucks with anti-aircraft guns mounted on them surrounded the Libyan Foreign Ministry in Tripoli early Sunday, a ministry official said.
Algeria's president was in France on Saturday where he was being treated for a "mini-stroke," medical and government officials told the state-run news agency.
An explosion outside a police station in the Libyan city of Benghazi on Saturday morning caused severe damage to the building, said the state news agency, LANA.
Here's an in-depth look at the life of Charles Taylor, former president of Liberia and convicted war criminal.
The U.N. Security Council signed off Thursday on a 12,600-member peacekeeping force in Mali "to use all necessary means" to protect civilians and artifacts.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu checked into a South African hospital Wednesday for treatment of a persistent infection, his foundation said.
A car bomb exploded just outside the French embassy in Tripoli early Tuesday morning, injuring two French security guards and a local girl, officials said.
Growing up opposite a garbage heap inspired Kenyan artist Cyrus Kabiru to create stunning artworks from waste.
Last year, 60 park rangers were killed in the line of duty. But rangers in Cameroon are willing to risk their lives to save the African forest elephant.
A French family kidnapped in northern Cameroon earlier this year has been released, the Cameroonian government said Friday.
At least 10 heavily armed militants forced their way into a court building Sunday in Somalia and launched a deadly attack, according to a local journalist.
About 70,000 refugees who fled violence in Mali are living in "appalling" conditions in a camp in the Mauritanian desert, Doctors Without Borders said Friday.
The cries of pain turn into cheers of joy as runners completed the 28th edition of the Marathon des Sables, known as the toughest footrace on Earth.
Judge Albie Sachs was an once an anti-apartheid activist who lost an arm to a car bomb. He helped build the new South Africa.
A six-day run that covers more than 220 km through the scorching heat of the Sahara desert began on Sunday, billed as the 'World's toughest race.'
Kenya swore in its youngest-ever president Tuesday before a massive crowd, including numerous heads of state and American civil rights activist Jesse Jackson.
After her sister died because she couldn't get to a hospital in time, a British-Nigerian doctor started the first air ambulance service in West Africa.
As mourners grieved over four Christians killed in clashes with Muslims, fresh violence broke out Sunday.
Former South African President Nelson Mandela was discharged from hospital Saturday, the country's presidential office said.
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