Zimbabwe’s main opposition political group, the MDC Alliance has confirmed that Morgan Tsvangirai will be their presidential flag bearer in the forthcoming presidential elections.
Two parents have been arrested in California after police found they allegedly kept their 13 children captive at home, some "shackled to their beds with chains and padlocks".
A commercial plane has skidded off a runway after landing in northern Turkey and dangled precariously off a muddy cliff with its nose only a few metres from the sea.
U.S. Ambassador to Panama John Feeley, a career diplomat and former Marine Corps helicopter pilot, has resigned, saying he no longer felt able to serve President Donald Trump.
The African Union, AU, is demanding a retraction and an apology from President Donald Trump for his comment which described Africa as a “shitholeâ€.
Some residents in a slum in Lusaka, Zambia’s capital, are violently protesting over a regulation imposed to control the spread of a cholera epidemic.
An officer of the Congolese army, close to President Denis Sassou Nguesso has been arrested in the capital, Brazzaville over suspicions of attempting to overthrow the regime.