A massacre in South Sudan, fuelled by hate speech on a radio station, was a "game-changer" in the country’s four-month conflict, says an official.
Government staff in Rwanda appear to be using fake accounts to harass journalists on Twitter.
Revenge attacks are driving the Islamic population out of the Central African Republic and appear to be targeting children.
A close-knit community has rallied around the murdered model Reeva Steenkamp’s family to give them time to heal.
Civil war looms after rebels spurn a proposal to end the violence raging across South Sudan.
Refugees at the Bangui airport camp gained some respite in the form of food, buckets and tarpaulins after supplies were cut off for three weeks.
The ANC has been accused of pettiness for excluding retired archbishop Desmond Tutu from Nelson Mandela’s funeral in the Eastern Cape.
Graça Machel and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela were at the bedside of former president Nelson Mandela when he died, says family friend Bantu Holomisa.
Officials and eyewitnesses recount the militant Muslim fundamentalist group’s audacious attack on a military base, which left many killed and injured.
Former SA president Thabo Mbeki says his country was asked by the UK for help with a military plan to remove Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe.