Archaeologists say they have unearthed the earliest evidence of human warfare to be scientifically dated, at a site in northern Kenya. The 10,000-year-old

Al Shabaab fighters attacked a remote Somali army base and entered a nearby town close to the border with Kenya yesterday, saying they had killed dozens of Kenyan soldiers in an African Union force supporting the government during the assault.

Sierra Leone officials confirm a death from Ebola, hours after the World Health Organization declared the latest West Africa outbreak over.

A suicide bomber killed 12 worshippers at a mosque in northern Cameroon yesterday, security officials said, in an area regularly targeted by Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamists.

The Somali Islamist group al-Shabab releases a propaganda video featuring footage of the US presidential hopeful, Donald Trump

Nigeria has "technically won the war" against Islamist Boko Haram militants, President Muhammadu Buhari said yesterday. He told the BBC that the militant group could no longer mount "conventional attacks" against security forces or population centres.

The Boko Haram insurgency has kept more than one million children out of school, the UN children's agency reported yesterday, highlighting fears that a lack of education will fuel further radicalism in and around Nigeria.

Investigators in Mali were yesterday hunting at least three people suspected of links to the jihadist siege at a luxury hotel in the capital that left at least 19 people dead.

Gun-toting jihadists took more than 100 people hostage for around nine hours at a top hotel in Mali's capital Bamako on Friday, in an attack claimed by an al-Qaeda affiliate that left at least 27 people dead.

An African jihadist group affiliated with al-Qaeda claims responsibility for an attack on a luxury hotel packed with foreigners in the Malian capital Bamako.

Nigeria yesterday finally got a new government after more than five months of waiting, as 36 ministers and junior ministers swore the oath of allegiance and

At least 12 people were killed in the Somali capital yesterday after Shebab gunmen used a vehicle packed with explosives to blast their

Two bomb attacks in north-eastern Nigeria have left at least 42 people dead and more than 100 injured, officials say.

Over 30,000 people in South Sudan's war-zone regions face death by starvation, the United Nations said yesterday, warning that tens of thousands more are on the brink of famine.

A hunter has shot dead the largest elephant killed in Africa for almost three decades.

Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of South Africa yesterday to protest against corruption, as public frustration grows over a government

Cargo drone routes capable of delivering urgent and precious supplies to remote areas on a massive scale will be seen in Rwanda soon.

At least 54 people were killed in a series of blasts in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, police said yesterday, the latest attacks by

Zimbabwe's 91-year-old President Robert Mugabe read the wrong speech at the opening of a new session of parliament on Tuesday, repeating an address he gave to the legislature last month.

The roll-out of high-speed mobile connectivity in Africa and India is demonstrating yet again how emerging economies can leapfrog traditional developmental stages to accelerate their economic growth.