Frank Butler

Black Twitter users posted selfies under the hashtag #FlexinMyComplexion ... but they ran into some opposition online.

Oumar Seye is hoping to make Senegal a hotspot for surfing.

South Sudan's president has promised to sign a peace deal he snubbed earlier this week, the US State Department says.

Gunmen on a motorcycle kill a Tunisian police officer in the beach resort of Sousse, where 38 people were shot dead in June.

UN peacekeepers in the Central African Republic face new allegations of sexually abusing three young females, one of them a minor.

South Sudanese President Salva Kiir's refusal to sign a deal to end an 18-month civil war was "mind-boggling", the chief mediator says.

South Africa's justice department is considering intervening to prevent Oscar Pistorius' early release from prison on Friday.

Africa's biggest basketball tournament is due to start in Tunisia, after a venue change following two deadly attacks on tourists this year.

A fire on a parked Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet at Heathrow Airport in 2013 was probably caused by a short circuit, air accident investigators say.

Laeila Adjovi reports on the children of Togo who are trafficked or used as child labour.