Thousands of residents left their homes near Abidjan's international airport on Monday after the government threatened to send in bulldozers as it seeks to create a buffer zone following the death of a teenage stowaway.

It's a world record almost nobody knows about, but South African Vernon Kruger is set to break it : the longest duration pole sitting in a barrel.

Ethiopian election board proposes controversial August date for crucial polls

Libya's warring leaders eye Berlin truce talks

Tens of thousands of Malawians took part in protests on Thursday at alleged attempts to bribe judges overseeing a legal challenge to the re-election of President Peter Mutharika last year.

Sudan: Security agents launch 'rebellion' over payoff plan

The three countries have agreed the filling of the Nile dam should start in the wet season and proceed in stages. But they have delayed making a final agreement until later in January.

Ethiopia's electoral board says national elections will likely take place on August 16, the first poll under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed whose premiership has brought unprecedented political change but also uncorked ethnic rivalries.

Exclusive: ‘We cannot afford instability in our part of the world’, King Abdullah II of Jordan tells FRANCE 24

An eyewitness recounts an attack at a primary school in eastern Kenya by suspected Al-Shabaab Islamists that left three teachers dead. The assailants also torched a police post and damaged a telecoms mast in the attack in Kamuthe, 40 kilometres (25 miles) south of the town of Garissa.

UN report: DR Congo violence may amount to crimes against humanity

Benin holds its annual voodoo festival -- an event that lures an influx of visitors to the capital Porto-Novo and underscores voodoo's comeback in the country of its birth. Voodoo, more often called "vodun" in West Africa, has a hierarchy of deities and tribal spirits of nature and sees revered ancestors living alongside the living.