Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress (ANC) surged into the lead in early official results yesterday with 55 percent of the vote in

South Africans began voting yesterday in national elections which the ruling ANC, in power since 1994, is favourite to win despite corruption scandals, sluggish economic growth and record unemployment.

A powerful but deep 7.2-magnitude earthquake rocked Papua New Guinea yesterday, officials said, cutting power and knocking items off

Fifty-five people die when a tanker truck explodes near the international airport of Niger's capital Niamey overnight, an interior ministry spokesman says.

More than 1,000 people have now died of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, authorities said, as aid workers warned that the highly contagious virus combined with insecurity in the restive region was creating a “deeply worrying situation”.

South Sudan's warring parties will hold talks in Addis Ababa, in a bid to salvage a stalled peace deal, with just days to go until a unity government is meant to be formed.

Six people, including a pastor, are killed in an attack on a Christian church in Burkina Faso, a government spokesman says.

Air raids by the self-styled Libyan National Army against the capital on Saturday night killed four people and wounded 20 others, Libya’s internationally recognised unity government said.

A former Algerian police chief, General Abdelghani Hamel, once considered a pillar of the regime of ousted president Abdelaziz Bouteflika has been

Sudan’s military rulers and opposition agreed in principle on Saturday to the formation of a joint body to lead a transition from 30 years of autocratic rule by Omar al-Bashir, but not on the new council’s make-up, two sources said.

More than 150 children -- some as young as 11 -- were among 220 people rescued from sex and labor trafficking rings in West Africa, Interpol

How do you run a digital business when your country’s president has shutdown the internet? The social media blackout in Chad began in March

Sudanese judges will march from the Supreme Court in Khartoum to a sit-in outside the Defence Ministry, joining for the first time the anti-government protests, one of the judges said yesterday.

Around 70 people have been killed in devastating floods in South Africa, an official said yesterday, while 1,000 people have been

Devastating floods in South Africa have left 51 dead and forced more than a thousand people from their homes, according to an updated toll issued Wednesday as President Cyril Ramaphosa flew to the deluged region.

Algeria’s richest man Issad Rebrab has been detained in jail on the public prosecutor’s orders, state media reported yesterday a day after

Thirteen people were killed and 16 injured when part of a church collapsed on worshippers following a violent storm near the eastern

Liberian President George Weah has been barred from his office for five days by two black snakes that slithered into the building this week, authorities say.

Boko Haram fighters torched a village in Cameroon’s troubled Far North Region overnight and killed 11 civilians in their sleep, security sources told AFP yesterday.

Protest leaders yesterday announced plans to unveil a civilian body to take over from Sudan’s ruling military council as crowds of demonstrators kept up the pressure outside army headquarters and Washington said it will send an envoy to encourage the transition.