Kidnappers freed scores of school children and a driver in west Cameroon early on Wednesday but kept hold of a principal and one teacher, officials said.

Thousands of Mozambican refugees are returning home from neighbouring Malawi after an easing of tensions between Mozambique's ruling Frelimo party and the opposition, Renamo.

Cameroon's army is searching for 79 children kindapped from a school in western Cameroon on Monday and has said Anglophone separatists are likely to blame.

Tribal marks are lacerations made on the face that was a common practice years ago in parts of the Yoruba and the Hausa tribes of Nigeria.

Cameroon's Biya to be sworn in, extending his 36-year-rule as president.

For five years, the organization Savama DCI has been working to digitalize and preserve ancient Islamic texts which fell into the hands of extremists in Timbuktu. After much painstaking effort, they're now 90 percent through with their mission.

Gunmen killed at least seven Christians who were returning from baptising a child at a Coptic monastery in Egypt on Friday (November 2), officials said - the most serious attack on the minority in more than a year.

Traditional leaders are on the verge of fighting child marriages which for many years it has become a menace to the girl child. The UN Women are in full support on the same fight.

The former vice president Riek Machar has returned to South Sudan for a 'peace celebration' following an agreement last month.

Hundreds of African migrants who lost their shelters in Morocco's biggest city during a fire are rebuilding their camp.

Somalia's capital hosted women and girls keen to learn to code in a field usually difficult for them to access. Saskia O'Donoghue reports.

Electric motorbikes hit Kigali's moto-taxi industry, offering a cheaper and environmentally friendly mode of transport.