Tanzania has cancelled next month's independence day celebrations, with the funds to be instead spent on rebuilding infrastructure damaged in recent election unrest, Prime Minister Mwigulu Nchemba has said.His...

A father has told the BBC he felt powerless as he witnessed gunmen on motorbikes abduct dozens of children, including his son, after storming a Catholic boarding school in...

Fifty of the 315 children kidnapped by gunmen from a Catholic school in Nigeria's Niger State on Friday have escaped. The Christian Association of Nigeria says they have been...

Mayeni JonesAfrica correspondent, JohannesburgGallo Images via Getty ImagesSouth Africa held a "social summit" ahead of the main event, in a bid to involve civil society voices in the G20's...

Chris Ewokor,BBC Africa, in Abuja, and Wycliffe MuiaBBCSt Mary's School was attacked in the early hours of the morningAn unknown number of pupils have been abducted by armed men...

ReutersKanu was not in court when the verdict was delivered, after being removed for unruly behaviourA court in Nigeria has found separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu guilty of terrorism and...

The Kenyan authorities paid a network of trolls to threaten and intimidate young protesters during recent anti-government demonstrations, Amnesty International has said.A new report by the human rights organisation...

Two girls, who were among at least 25 children and a teacher kidnapped from their boarding school in north-western Nigeria's Kebbi state on Monday, have managed to escape, a...

Armed men have killed a teacher and abducted at least 25 students in an attack on a girls' secondary school in north-western Nigeria, police say.The gang invaded the Government...

A major data breach in Somalia's electronic visa system may have exposed personal information belonging to tens of thousands of applicants, including US citizens, the American embassy in Somalia...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels and the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo have signed a framework for peace in the east of the country. The ceremony was held in...

South Sudan's leader Salva Kiir has in a shock move dismissed one of his vice-presidents, Benjamin Bol Mel, who had been tipped as his possible successor.Kiir stripped Bol Mel...