(Hundreds of workers were rescued from a fire that ignited inside a gold mine near South Africa’s capital on Sunday. The fire started at 9:40 a.m. “during maintenance work on a bulk air cooler” in a mine owned by Harmony Gold Mining…

(France complained on Thursday that its European allies were not doing enough to help fight terrorism and instability in Africa and demanded a fairer sharing of the burden. In the past few years France has intervened militarily against al-Qaeda-linked Islamists in Mali…

(The Egyptian military said Monday it has bombed ISIS targets in Libya after the militant group released a video that appeared to show the mass beheadings of Coptic Christians. “The airstrikes hit their targets accurately and our eagles returned to their bases…

(South Africa’s parliament descended into chaos as leftist MPs scuffled with security during a key annual speech by President Jacob Zuma. The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), led by Julius Malema, repeatedly interrupted Mr Zuma, demanding answers over a spending scandal.)

(A riot broke out Sunday night outside of a major soccer game in Egypt, with a stampede and fighting between police and fans killing at least 25 people, authorities said. The riot, only three years after similar violence killed 74 people, began…

(United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has asked the U.N. Security Council for 1,030 more peacekeepers for Central African Republic after the mission was left overstretched when infrastructure and senior officials needed to be protected in the capital, Bangui.)

(African leaders have agreed to send 7,500 troops to fight the Boko Haram insurgency in north-east Nigeria. Samil Chergui, the head of the African Union’s (AU) peace and security council, said the decision was made after the council urged heads of state…

[Le Caire – Onze personnes ont été tuées et 30 blessées dimanche en Egypte, au moment où le pays marque le quatrième anniversaire de la révolte de 2011 qui chassa Hosni Moubarak du pouvoir, selon un média d’Etat. ]

(It was a hyena that killed the boy, but four elderly women got the blame. Villagers slashed them with machetes then set fire to their bodies for casting spells on the wild animal. “They cut her with machetes,” said Sufia Shadrack, the…

(It was a hyena that killed the boy, but four elderly women got the blame. Villagers slashed them with machetes then set fire to their bodies for casting spells on the wild animal. “They cut her with machetes,” said Sufia Shadrack, the…