South Sudanese Olympic athlete Guor Marial may not be a hot medal tip for Sunday's marathon, but the former slave's road to Rio is one of the most astonishing stories of the games.

Rio police on Tuesday said they killed three alleged gunmen in a raid on a favela dominated by drug traffickers where

Two persons, said to be Bangladeshis, narrowly escape an attack by Renamo rebels in Mozambique, in which, police say, six of its citizens were killed.

A South African court yesterday jailed a woman for 10 years for kidnapping a newborn baby and raising her as her own, before an

Suspected rebels killed at least 36 civilians in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the provincial governor said

Fighting flared in South Sudan late on Saturday southwest of the capital between forces loyal to the president and

Police arrested two people on Thursday suspected of supporting Islamic State in planning a possible attack during the

Sudanese authorities yesterday warned people living near the banks of the Nile to be wary of flooding, after two weeks

Brazil's Senate voted early yesterday to indict President Dilma Rousseff on charges of breaking budget laws and put

South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) suffered a historic defeat in the nation's capital to the opposition

The African National Congress lost its grip on local government in Tshwane, home of South Africa's capital Pretoria, as results yesterday gave the opposition Democratic Alliance a second big win in the ANC's worst election since the end of apartheid.

The African National Congress (ANC) yesterday vowed to learn from bruising local election results that showed South

The Olympic flame wound its way around Rio de Janeiro's iconic landmarks Friday as protesters unleashed a fresh

South Africa's opposition Democratic Alliance led in three major cities yesterday as votes were counted in local

The disputed leader of Boko Haram has said he is still in charge of Nigeria's militant Islamist group despite a statement by so-called Islamic State that he had been replaced.

Burundi's government has rejected the deployment of 228 UN police to the troubled African nation, saying a French-

Six people were killed in a gun and car-bomb assault on a police building in the centre of the Somali capital that also left seven

Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva, Brazil's hugely popular former president, has been ordered to stand on trial on charges that

The illegal killing of African elephants for their ivory seems to have fallen from record peaks but poaching of the animal is still

A former Somali MP who joined the Shabaab group in 2010 was one of two suicide bombers who killed 13 people near