Forty-eight Zambian MPs from the opposition UPND have been suspended for 30 days for boycotting President Edgar Lungu’s state of the nation address.

Probably one of the most remarkable government programs in history aside the New Deal was the American Peace Corp initiated under its 35th President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

A French soldier has been jailed for a year by a court in Paris for molesting girls aged three and five in a hotel swimming pool in Burkina Faso.

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari is "recuperating fast" from his illness, his wife Aisha Buhari has said.

The King of Morocco, Mohammed VI, has refused to attend the 51st Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the ECOWAS because of the presence of the Israeli Prime Minister.

A group of militant Islamists in Libya, blamed by the US for the 2012 attack on the US mission in Benghazi which killed the ambassador, says it has disbanded.

Ethiopian photographer Martha Tadesse has published the latest in her series of portraits of women with quotes of the subjects talking about their first periods.

A group of the "Chibok girls" freed from Nigeria's Boko Haram militants have been reunited with their families.