Harrison Odjegba Okene, a sunken tugboat’s cook, managed to suvive three days by breathing a dwindling supply of oxygen in an air pocket in the wreck.
The plight of two rescued infant gorillas highlights the dangers confronting the endangered animals, victims of ongoing violence and rebellion in DRC.
With Congo’s army diverted to eastern Congo, new militia groups have arisen as older ones reassert themselves, killing hundreds of civilians.
Activists are urging Unesco to abandon a prize named after Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.
Etienne Tshisekedi has proclaimed himself president and ordered his followers to stage jailbreaks to free detained colleagues.
Historians say the genocide committed by German soldiers in what they called South West Africa was a precursor to the Nazi holocaust of the Jews.
Twelve-year-old Ontlametse Phalatse is the first black child diagnosed with progeria, a rare and fatal condition that accelerates the aging process.
The race to lead sub-Saharan Africa’s largest country kicks off this week with presidential candidates registering for the November election.
Three months into the fight against Muammar Gaddafi, the rebels complain they have yet to see a penny of the hundreds of millions of dollars on offer.
The fate of former strongman Laurent Gbagbo will be an indicator of how calls for reconciliation play out in the West African nation.
A warlord who began the battle to wrest Côte d’Ivoire’s commercial capital from soldiers says a lack of military coordination cost too many lives.
Forces loyal to Côte d’Ivoire’s elected president killed hundreds of civilians and raped his rival’s supporters, Human Rights Watch said.
Haiti’s Jean-Bertrand Aristide is leaving exile in South Africa in just a few hours, despite President Barack Obama’s bid to keep him away.
The tip-off led intelligence agents to an US jet loaded with half a tonne of gold, a Houston diamond merchant and a car chase that produced $6,8m.
A DRC court has sentenced a colonel to 20 years in the highest-profile rape case ever held in the massive state where sexual violence is endemic.
Each year, lions are raised in captivity in South Africa and then set loose in enclosed areas where hunters, many from the US, gun them down.
First the soldiers told residents of the villages in the mineral-rich eastern DRC not to worry. They were just there for a rest and would do no harm.
Rwanda has threatened to withdraw from UN peacekeeping if the world body publishes a report accusing the Rwandan army of possible genocide.
In the east of this vast country, ongoing rebel attacks and poor healthcare have produced a generation of mourning mothers and fathers.
More than a decade and billions of dollars after UN peacekeepers deployed to the DRC during a civil war, President Joseph Kabila wants them out.
