An Angolan journalist working for Voice of America in the oil-rich Cabinda enclave said Friday that he has received death threats from armed men, and accused authorities of wanting him dead.

The northern Angolan province of Uige has declared a state of medical emergency after a 14-month-old boy tested positive for polio, which has made a resurgence in the country, UNICEF said Thursday.

Six people were arrested in a riot outside the party headquarters of Zimbawbe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, state media said Wednesday, as police denied targetting the offices.

Zimbabwe's attorney general plans to file a lawsuit against the European Union over sanctions imposed on President Robert Mugabe and his top associates, state media reported on Friday.

A Kenyan man was sentenced to life imprisonment Friday after he admitted involvement in a grenade attack and membership of the Al-Qaeda linked Somali Shebab militant group.

The Namibian government Wednesday strongly condemned what it called the "cold-blooded extra-judicial execution" of former Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi.

A Copenhagen appeals court ruled Wednesday that Denmark's law on genocide cannot be used to prosecute a Rwandan man charged with killing Tutsis during the 1994 genocide and dismissed his case.

Switzerland has denied visas to President Robert Mugabe's wife Grace and five top Zimbabwean officials who had planned to attend a technology conference in Geneva, a spokesman said Wednesday.

Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said Monday that he wants gay rights enshrined in a new constitution, but his spokesman hastened to add that gays should "do their things in private".

The trial of six men charged with the attempted murder of Rwanda's exiled former army chief resumed Monday at a Johannesburg court with the cross examination of a key state witness.

The president of oil-rich Angola on Tuesday denied his country was a dictatorship but admitted there was a need for more social dialogue after a series of unprecedented anti-government protests.

Three French, three Swiss and two Britons were killed in an airplane accident in Botswana's Okavango delta in the northern tourist area on Friday, diplomatic sources said Tuesday.

A group of supporters has raised $50,000 to pay the fine of an Angolan journalist who faces a year in prison for publishing accusations of corruption against three army generals, an NGO said.

A ban on some meat exports after a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak could cost South Africa over $490 million a year, an industry group said Monday.

ROSETTA, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, May 17, 2011 (ENS) - The Development Bank of Southern Africa and three European development finance partners Monday signed agreements to finance the Mooi-Mgeni water supply project that will provide clean drinking water to more than six million people in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province.

Johannesburg - A 13-year-old girl became the latest victim of “corrective rape,” South African media reported on Saturday, as the trend of violent attacks on lesbians showed no signs of letting up. “Government condemns this senseless and cowardly act of criminality,” spokesman Tlali Tlali said in a statement from the department of

When the soul-searching stops, South Africa will in all probability blame a brittle middle order for their latest bout of big stage fright. The six-run defeat by England was the lone blot in their otherwise impressive World Cup Group B campaign that suggested they had ticked most of the boxes. South Africa had recognised the spinner's