The people of Equatorial Guinea ought to be among the world's wealthiest - but somehow the country's income from oil and timber does not reach them.

Egypt's newly appointed public prosecutor Talaat Ibrahim offers to resign from his post after protests from the judiciary.

Henri Michel quits as coach of Kenya after less than four months in charge due to a contract disagreement.

Zambia captain Christopher Katongo is named 2012 BBC African Footballer of the Year

Recent gains in the fight against malaria could be reversed because funding has stalled, the World Health Organization says.

Nigeria's Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala says the kidnappers of her 82-year-old mother demanded her resignation over her moves to clean up corruption in the oil sector.

Zambia captain Christopher Katongo is voted the BBC African Footballer of the Year for 2012.

Protesters throw tomatoes and stones at Tunisia's President Moncef Marzouki in the town of Sidi Bouzid, where the Arab uprising started exactly two years ago.

Egypt's opposition calls for mass protests after Islamists claimed voters had backed the draft constitution in the first round of the referendum.

The president of Uganda says gay people should not be killed or persecuted, in his first public comments on proposed anti-gay laws for some time.

Why is the president of Equatorial Guinea building a new capital city in a remote part of the jungle?

A plot to bomb a high-profile meeting of South Africa's governing ANC has been foiled, with four suspected right-wingers arrested, a police spokesman says.

South African Football Association head Kirsten Nematandani is suspended after a match-fixing inquiry.

The African leader spending billions on a remote new capital