• Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of former leader Col Muammar Gaddafi, will be tried in Libya in August and "will receive a fair trial", officials say.
  • South Africa has announced its intention to hand back money stashed in the country by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, the late Libyan leader, after reaching an agreement with the new powers in Tripoli.    
  • Nelson Mandela is "doing very well", one of his daughters, Zenani Mandela-Dlamini, has said.    
  • JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Former South African president Nelson Mandela, who is being treated in hospital for a lung infection, is "doing very well", his daughter said on Monday. The 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader, who became So...
  • The wife of Nelson Mandela, Graca Machel, thanks the thousands of people who have wished him well during his latest stay in hospital.
  • JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Nelson Mandela continues to recover in hospital from a lung infection but remains in a serious condition, South African President Jacob Zuma said on Sunday. Mandela has been in a Pretoria hospital for a we...
  • Former South African President Nelson Mandela continues to get better in a Pretoria hospital, current President Jacob Zuma has said.
  • Nelson Mandela is seeing "sustained" improvement from the recurring lung infection that has forced him to spend more than a week in hospital, South Africa's president has said.
  • South African president Jacob Zuma says Nelson Mandela continues to recover but remains in a serious condition; he also asked people to wish the former leader a happy Father's Day.
  • Nelson Mandela "continues to get better" after more than a week in hospital battling a lung infection although his condition remains serious, South African President Jacob Zuma said on Sunday.
  • Nelson Mandela seems to be on the road to recovery from a recurrent lung infection, a grandson said on Saturday after visiting South Africa's anti-apartheid hero in hospital.
  • Nelson Mandela is recovering well in hospital, his grandson said on Saturday.    
  • QUNU, South Africa (Reuters) - Former South African President and anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela is recovering well from a lung infection which has kept him in hospital for a week, his grandson said on Saturday. "Madiba is r...
  • As South Africans hope and pray for the recovery of Nelson Mandela, President Jacob Zuma has been visiting the township of Soweto, an iconic place in the struggle against apartheid
  • South African president Jacob Zuma calls on the country to truly appreciate Nelson Mandela's lifetime of work, not just his "superficial image".    
  • Nelson Mandela continues to recover from a lung infection but his condition is still serious, the South African government has said.
  • South African President Jacob Zuma tells parliament that Nelson Mandela has started "responding better to treatment" for a recurring lung infection as he spends his fifth day in hospital.    
  • Father of the nation remains in serious but stable condition as nation grapples with hopes and fears for the 94-year-old elder statesman’s recovery
  • South African President Jacob Zuma has sought to reassure an uneasy nation that Nelson Mandela, although in a "very serious" condition as he battles a recurrent lung infection, is receiving the best of care.    
  • Nelson Mandela is "responding better" to treatment this afternoon, South African President Jacob Zuma has said.    
  • A South African government spokesman says former President Nelson Mandela's condition remains serious during his third day in a Pretoria hospital.    
  • Rafael Nadal has apologied after Tweeting "rest in peace" to Nelson Mandela - despite the fact that the former South African president is still alive.    
  • Rafael Nadal has apologied after Tweeting "rest in peace" to Nelson Mandela - despite the fact that the former South African president is still alive.    
  • BBC's James Copnall has been outside the hospital where the former president is staying and well-wishers have gathered to sing songs of support.
  • By Lanre Ola MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Seven students, two teachers and two insurgents were killed when suspected members of Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram attacked a school in the north-eastern town of Damaturu, the military said. Groups like Boko Haram and the al Qaeda-linked Ansaru have b...
  • Some 2,400 miners found themselves trapped half a mile beneath South Africa's bush veldt when militant trade unionists mounted a wildcat protest against the suspension of four shop stewards.    
  • By Ghaith Shennib TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Two former top associates of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi were acquitted on Monday of wasting public money, but remained in jail as part of a bigger investigation involving his spy chief and one of his sons. Ex-foreign minister Abdel-Ati al-Obeidi and Mohammed Zwai, ...
  • The reforms that are needed so badly will be given a boost when old-fashioned ways of keeping accounts are handled by smart tools
  • GENEVA (Reuters) - Zimbabweans themselves must resolve a row over President Robert Mugabe's decision to call an election on July 31, the head of the African Union commission said on Monday. Zimbabwe's Constitutional Court ordered Mugabe two weeks ago to hold the poll by the end of July, but Prime Mi...
  • President Robert Mugabe has accused his political rivals of being afraid of defeat after they sought to postpone elections scheduled for July.    
  • By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE (Reuters) - President Robert Mugabe accused political rivals of seeking to delay elections in Zimbabwe because they fear defeat, after regional leaders urged his ruling coalition to ask the courts to e...
  • Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean President, has reportedly been forced to climb down from a unilateral decision to hold elections on July 31 following a meeting of southern African regional leaders in Mozambique.    
  • MAPUTO (Reuters) - Southern African leaders on Saturday told Zimbabwe to ask the courts for an extension on a July 31 deadline to hold elections, a date that caused high tension between President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister M...
  • Opponents of President Robert Mugabe target the website of South Africa's governing ANC, accusing it of backing Zimbabwe's leader.
  • By using presidential powers to bypass parliament and set July 31 as an election date, Robert Mugabe could provoke a constitutional crisis
  • Robert Mugabe has fast-tracked changes to Zimbabwe electoral laws, using a presidential decree to by-pass parliament in a bid to comply with a constitutional court order to hold elections by July 31.    
  • By Joseph Akwiri MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenyan police shot dead two suspected militants on Monday who they said were planning attacks in the country on behalf of Somalia's al Shabaab. During a dawn raid on a house in the port city of Mombasa, police shot Kassim Omollo after he defied orders to s...
  • US homebuilders’ confidence at seven-year high, India keeps rates on hold, eurozone foreign trade slows, focus this week on the Fed
  • CONAKRY (Reuters) - A repeatedly delayed parliamentary election meant to seal Guinea's transition to civilian rule will have to be postponed again after the government and opposition failed to agree on how to run the vote, a spokesman for the elections commission said. The election in the West Afric...
  • Several soldiers are reported to have been killed when gunmen attacked an armoury in the central Mozambican region of Dondo.
  • East Africa's Cecafa football tournament is set to start on Tuesday in Sudan's Darfur and South Kordofan regions despite ongoing security concerns.
  • ROME (Reuters) - More than 1,200 migrants reached Italy over the weekend after attempting the perilous sea passage from Africa in flimsy vessels, the Italian coast guard said on Monday. The coast guard said it had rescued most of the migrants at sea after intercepting nearly 20 boats and was still s...
  • By Joseph Akwiri MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenyan police said on Monday they had shot dead a suspected supporter of the Somali militant group al Shabaab during a gunfight and said he had been plotting attacks in the country. Kenya has suffered a series of grenade and gun attacks since it sent troop...
  • Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi appoints Islamist allies as regional governors, tightening the Muslim Brotherhood's grip on power.
  • Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi on Saturday announced the "definitive" severing of relations with war-torn Syria, which is suffering from more than two years of civil war.
  • Egypt's president Mohammed Morsi has warned that "all options are open" as a row with Ethiopia over diverting the Blue Nile for Africa's largest hydroelectric dam intensified.    
  • Premier says Cairo will use ‘diplomatic, legal and other solutions’ to defend its water security against Ethiopia’s building of a hydroelectric dam
  • Nelson Mandela's wife Graça Machel has issued a statement saying that messages of support the family has been sent from around the world have helped "lighten the burden of anxiety; bringing us love, comfort and hope".    
  • Rosie Boycott travels to Kenya with thirteen female senior executives from the UK food world, to help create a fishpond that will change women's lives.    
  • Pictures of the healers who battle spells and sickness
  • NIAMEY (Reuters) - An inquiry into shooting at a military police academy in Niger's capital Niamey found no evidence of an attack on the camp, suggesting it could have been an over-reaction by nervous guards, the foreign minister said on Sunday. Niger's government had said its security forces had re...

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