Ian Khama is credited with helping Botswana to prosper, but critics warn of his authoritarian bent.
Like Icarus, Oscar Pistorius fell from fantastic heights to the depths of his own personal hell.
Chad has followed the likes of Uganda in outlawing homosexuality in a recent wave of homophobia on the African continent.
The world’s oldest seed plants are highly desirable to collectors, making them – and the Kirstenbosch gardens – prime targets for cycad poachers.
Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe appears to have achieved his goal of extracting more cash from China.
Nelson Mandela’s widow talks of their love, her grief and how she censored the media so he would not read bad news about his beloved ANC.
The Christian woman whose apostasy death sentence was overturned is doing well after the US embassy in Khartoum gave the family refuge.
A Nigerian man has been detained in a mental health institution by his family after saying he had lost his belief in God.
Desert Wolf, maker of the Skunk Riot Control Copter, says its machine is "designed to control unruly crowds". But labour activists are condemning it.
Africa’s claim to be the ‘mobile continent’ is even stronger than previously thought.