Tourist killed, several injured in Egypt hot air balloon crash.

At least a dozen people have been killed in South Africa after a passenger train hit a truck at a level crossing.

Ongoing political unrest and the ebola epidemic have seriously impacted the West African country, prompting many young people to leave in search of a better life. Those who have to return home face the challenge of rebuilding their lives.

A deadly collision between a bus and a lorry in Kenya kills scores of people.

Ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Mursi has been sentenced to an additional three years in jail on charges of insulting the judiciary.

A gunman killed at least 11 people on Friday in attacks on a Coptic Orthodox church and a Christian-owned shop near Cairo before he was wounded and arrested.

It's an island so remote that it takes a five-day boat ride from South Africa's Cape Town just to get there. But the voyage to Saint Helena is definitely worth it. This largely unspoilt British territory is home to barely 4,000 people.

Former soccer star George Weah has won Liberia's presidential election, setting up the first peaceful transfer of power for the western African nation since 1944.

Nicknamed the "Central African Napoleon", Bokassa was the protégé of then French president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. Today, with its dilapidated palaces and abandoned imperial villas, the country is among the world’s poorest, plagued by corruption and civil war.

Liberians went to the polls on Tuesday for a presidential election they hope will mark their first democratic transfer of power in more than seven decades, despite allegations of fraud.

Liberians head to the polls to choose a new president in a run off election between the Vice-President and a former football star.

White Zimbabwean farmer Rob Smart and his two sons returned to their farm with ululations from former workers six months after he was forced out by police during ex-president Robert Mugabe's reign.