South African rapper determined to prove Afrikaans is cool

Some 300,000 people have fled fighting in Sudan's Darfur region in the first five months of 2013, the UN's top aid official Valerie Amos warns.

Images of the funeral of renowned Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, who died in March in the US and whose body has now returned to his homeland.

International mining companies operating in Mozambique are failing in their obligation to people displaced by coal mining, says Human Rights Watch.

South Africa is celebrating 100 years since Gerard Sekoto's birth with the exhibition "Song for Sekoto" in Johannesburg.

A hacker has attacked a South African police website, downloading the details of whistleblowers who reported crime, an official says.

A number of people are wounded in bomb attacks in north-western Niger on a military camp and a French-run uranium mine, officials say.

Portugal's African community feels the pain of economic crisis

The funeral of the Nigerian author Chinua Achebe is due to take place on Thursday in his home town of Ogidi in the east of the country.

The elaborate funeral planned for Nigerian author Chinua Achebe

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon begins a trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo as fighting continues near the eastern city of Goma.