Meskel celebrants in Addis Ababa follow the Ethiopian Orthodox tradition of building a big bonfire, known as a Demera, and...

The African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) 2012 aims to develop concrete action plans for developing Africa's agricultural sector and hopes...

Expelled African National Congress Youth League president Julius Malema was granted bail after being charged with graft. He proclaimed his...

Mama Hawa Aden Mohamed oversees a tailoring class at the Galkayo Education Centre for Peace and Development (GECPD) in Somalia.

In June 2007, a previously undocumented monkey known locally as "Lesula" was found in the forests of the middle Lomami...

A little girl crouches in the sand at the refugee camp near M'bera, Mauritania where between 60,000 and 70,000 refugees...

Angola's democracy is about to turn another page as the nation votes under its new constitution. Women wait outside a...

Torrential rains have swept away crops, tools and homes in Niger, a landlocked country that was already in the throes...

Fishing licences have been cancelled in Senegal to curtail the destructive fishing practices of European countries.

A man digs in raised beds for crops planted close to the waters of Lake Tanganyika in Zambia.