A man has been arrested after a grenade attack killed a woman and wounded several people outside a night club in Mombasa.

Armed nomads clashed with residents of a Libyan town on the border with Algeria on Wednesday.

A Zimbabwean opposition politician at a Ford Motor Company car show got into the latest model on display and drove it away.

The United States vowed not to lift sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe before signs of permanent political reforms.

South Sudan will soon acquire anti-aircraft missiles to defend its territory against air attacks allegedly carried out by Sudan.

The Human Rights Watch (HRW) says a Congolese general wanted for war crimes has begun to recruit child soldiers again.

A Mauritanian court upheld a death sentence handed to an Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb assassin convicted of murder.

An international human rights group says Mali is suffering its worst crisis since independence.

The boys and teenagers were taken at gunpoint, including from inside schools. Some were viciously beaten.

The UN, African Union and East Africa's regional organization are warning opponents of Somalia's move toward peace.

Amnesty International said that armed Tuaregs and Islamists, who seized northern Mali, had carried out grave rights abuses.

A woman has died after a grenade attack in Mombasa, a day after armed men opened fire and threw explosives into a restaurant.

A 10-year-old girl who was allegedly raped by a neighbour now lives in fear after the man was released on bail.

Former Liberian president Charles Taylor is expected to tell judges that he bears no responsibility for atrocities during Sierra Leone's civil war when he addresses an international tribunal this week.

European helicopter gunships have attacked a pirate base on the Somali coast - the first such airborne strike on land by the anti-piracy force off the coast of East Africa.

Mali’s Islamist rebel group Ansar Dine will allow a previously blocked aid convoy to deliver its food and medical supplies to Timbuktu this week.

Several UN heavyweights have warned Somalia's president that international support is conditional on Mogadishu reaching key political targets.

Several people have been injured in a suspected grenade attack at a club in Kenya’s coastal city of Mombasa.

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir will not allow South Sudan to export any oil through his country unless the two states settle their border disputes.

A notorious ex-warlord who became a general in the Congolese army is being blamed for fomenting more unrest in Congo's east.