Gunfire and blasts echoed through Libya’s capital yesterday as eastern forces fought troops of the internationally recognised gov-ernment in southern Tripoli suburbs, forcing thousands of civilians to flee their homes.

Sudan’s ruling military council yesterday promised the country would have a new civilian government, a day after the armed forces overthrew President Omar al-Bashir, but the proposal was immediately rejected by the main protest group.

At least 50 people were killed in clashes with bandits in northwest Nigeria, which has been riven by cattle rustling and kidnapping, the

Ethiopian investigators urged Boeing to review its flight control technology and said pilots of state carrier Ethiopian Airlines had

Hundreds of students hit the streets of the Algerian capital yesterday dismissing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's promise to resign as

Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has submitted his resignation, state news agency APS said yesterday, following weeks of mass protests against his rule.

At least 11 people died when a bomb exploded on a busy street and ripped into a nearby restaurant in Somalia's capital Mogadishu yesterday, medics said.

Gunmen kill at least 134 Fulani herders in central Mali, a local mayor says, the deadliest such attack of recent times in a region reeling from worsening ethnic and jihadist violence.

Somalia's al Shabaab stormed a government building yesterday, detonating a suicide car bomb in the heart of the capital Mogadishu with at least 15 people, including an assistant minister, killed during the ensuing gun battle.

The death toll in Mozambique has climbed to 417 after a cyclone devastated swathes of the southern African country, flooding thousands of square kilometres (miles), the government says.

At least 60 people are killed in a head-on collision between two buses in Ghana, police say, in the latest deadly crash on the country's roads.

A cyclone that ravaged three southern African countries last week has killed at least 400 people, affected more than 1.7 million others and left 15,000 people still stranded by floods, according to estimates yesterday.

The number of people in Zimbabwe affected by a devastating cyclone and flooding has jumped to 200,000, with most of the damage occurring near the Mozambique border, the UN says.

Aid workers scrambled to save hundreds trapped by floods around the Mozambican port city of Beira yesterday, after a powerful cyclone killed hundreds of people and left a trail of destruction across swathes of southeast Africa.

Pakistan has lodged an official complaint with the United Nations over damage caused to a protected forest reserve during an air strike by India last month, Pakistan's climate change minister Malik Amin Aslam Khan said on Monday.

At least 24 people were killed and 31 injured Sunday when a freight train carrying stowaways derailed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, police and medical services said.

Ethiopians were yesterday holding funerals for friends and relatives who perished in last week's Ethiopian Airlines crash, which killed all onboard and saw the worldwide grounding of the Boeing aircraft involved.

At least 24 people have died in south eastern Zimbabwe as homes and bridges were swept away by a tropical storm, the country's

At least 66 people have been killed and 141,000 affected after heavy rains deluged central and northern Mozambique, the government has said as it appealed for funds to manage the crisis.

An unknown number of people died and up to 100 children were among those feared trapped after a four-storey building containing a primary school collapsed in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos yesterday.