18 January 2012 12:00 AM
Ethiopia is forcing tens of thousands of people off their land so it can lease it to foreign investors, leaving former landowners destitute and in some cases starving, Human Rights Watch has said.
18 January 2012 12:00 AM
Thousands of lives and millions of pounds were lost needlessly because of a "dangerous delay" in the response to the East Africa famine, a report has found.
18 January 2012 12:00 AM
A new Tuareg rebel group, which includes nomads who fought for the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, launched attacks yesterday in several towns in Mali.
17 January 2012 12:00 AM
Union leaders suspended a nationwide strike yesterday after the Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan partially reinstated subsidies to keep petrol prices low and deployed soldiers in the streets to stop widening protests.
16 January 2012 02:22 AM
Archaeologists from Egypt and Switzerland have unearthed the 1,100-year-old tomb of a female singer in the Valley of the Kings.
16 January 2012 12:00 AM
A nationwide strike in Nigeria over fuel prices is set to escalate today after two major unions said talks with the government had failed, threatening oil exports which are vital to the West African country's economy.
15 January 2012 12:00 AM
Oprah Winfrey said the first students to graduate from her academy for underprivileged South African girls were "free to soar", during a graduation speech yesterday. Winfrey, one of the world's wealthiest women, spent $40m (£26m) to build the school.
15 January 2012 12:00 AM
Nobel laureate will not run for president
15 January 2012 12:00 AM
Thirteen suspected Somali pirates have been captured by the Royal Navy, following an interception off the coast of Somalia.
14 January 2012 08:22 AM
The Royal Navy has captured 13 Somali pirates on a boat in the Indian Ocean.
14 January 2012 12:00 AM
After years in the political wilderness, Islamist party wins 45 per cent of votes in the Egyptian election
13 January 2012 12:00 AM
Satellite pictures reveal areas transformed by ransom riches
12 January 2012 03:31 PM
A British man and two Kenyans have been charged with handling explosive materials by a court in Kenya's coastal city of Mombasa.
12 January 2012 03:21 PM
A union representing 20,000 oil and gas workers in Nigeria has threatened to shut down all production starting on Sunday as part of a crippling nationwide strike over spiralling fuel prices.
12 January 2012 11:55 AM
A senior figure in the regime of Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak and a key International Monetary Fund adviser, Youssef Boutros-Ghali had grown used to being welcomed in some of Britain's most respected think-tanks and academic institutions, dispensing his views on economic and political reform to an array of opinion former
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