2009-11-26 22:14
Police in Sierra Leone have arrested a gang of 10 poachers after they "wiped out" the entire elephant herd in the country's 'only wildlife park.
2009-11-26 21:05
The ICC's prosecutor asked judges for permission to investigate Kenya's post election violence that left more than 1 000 dead.
2009-11-26 21:05
Guinean soldiers raped at least 100 women during a crackdown on protests in September, a human rights group says.
2009-11-26 09:43
Somalia's National Security Minister says two foreign journalists freed after more than a year have flown to neighbouring Kenya.
2009-11-26 18:14
National and international inquiries are under way in Mali into a burnt-out Boeing 727 that's believed to have made a cocaine delivery, President Amadou Toumani Toure has announced.
2009-11-26 16:14
A UN human rights official says a three-member UN commission has arrived in Guinea to investigate the September massacre in which 157 people are said to have been killed.
2009-11-26 17:14
Somali pirates say they've released a Greek cargo vessel and its Ukrainian crew after a payment of $3.7m, more than six months after it was captured in the Indian Ocean.
2009-11-26 12:43
One of Africa's most brutal rebel movements relies on a vast international network of supporters in at least 25 countries, the UN reports.
2009-11-26 11:05
The HRW says it has for the first time been given permission to launch a report on Libya's rights record from inside the country, a step it says shows a new openness.
2009-11-26 09:43
Thousands of civilians are fleeing Rwanda for eastern DRC causing fresh ethnic tensions in the region, the Monuc and refugee agencies say.