Three of Angola’s most powerful officials have acknowledged they hold concealed shares in an oil venture linked to Cobalt International Energy.
Afghanistan says its regained control of Kabul, killing all the Taliban militants who launched one of the biggest attacks on the city in a decade.
Oil company Total has shut down a gas plant in Nigeria after a gas leak and has begun working at trying to limit the environmental impact.
Sudan has denied its warplanes bombed an oilfield seized by forces from South Sudan and blamed the South for damages caused by last week’s fighting.
A team of United Nations monitors have begun work in Syria, seeking to ensure both state forces and the opposition repect the terms of their truce.
The fraud trial of Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir was put on hold this morning, after the state provisionally withdrew the fraud cases against him.
He lived his life for others. But, in the end, Eugene Saldanha left himself out of the final equation.
A South African yacht with seven people on board has gone missing on a cruise between the island Mayotte Pemba in northern Mozambique.
The UN security council is preparing to rebuke North Korea for its "deplorable" bid to launch a rocket in violation of a ban on ballistic missiles.
The Guinea-Bissau army and opposition parties have agreed to set up a transitional body to run the country ahead of talks with regional powers.