News from Africa
The latest stories from the Africa section of the BBC News web site.
Updated: 35 weeks 3 days ago
'Moderate Islam' to guide Libya
Libya will be ruled as a democracy based on "moderate Islam", says the head of the interim authorities in his first speech in Tripoli since Col Gaddafi was ousted.
Categories: African News
Soldiers help Briton kidnap hunt
Extra police and soldiers are sent to the area in Kenya where a British holidaymaker was shot and killed and his wife kidnapped.
Categories: African News
African Dream: Malawi's Gospel Kazako
Malawi's radio tycoon tells of making his dreams come true
Categories: African News
VIDEO: SA court bans 'hate speech' song
South Africa's high court has ruled that the anti-apartheid song Shoot the Boer is hate speech and banned the ruling ANC from singing it.
Categories: African News
Kenya pipeline fire kills dozens
At least 75 people are killed in a petrol pipeline blast and fire in Kenya's capital Nairobi, the Red Cross says, as flames tear through a nearby shanty town.
Categories: African News
Nairobi anger high after deadly pipeline fire
Slum residents' fury after deadly pipeline inferno
Categories: African News
Top French ex-leaders 'got $20m'
Former French President Jacques Chirac and PM Dominique de Villepin were given $20m by African leaders, a lawyer and former aide alleges.
Categories: African News
VIDEO: Zanzibar to identify ferry victims
A centre was opened in Stone Town, Zanzibar, over the weekend to give families of the recently deceased an opportunity to identify their relatives.
Categories: African News
Nigeria army 'to end Jos unrest'
Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan orders the military to take "all necessary actions" to stop unrest in Jos and the surrounding area.
Categories: African News
Chirac-Villepin allegations revive sleazy memories
Shocking allegations of African payments to French leaders
Categories: African News
Quinn leaves door open for Gyan
Sunderland chairman Niall Quinn leaves the the door open for Asamoah Gyan to return to the club after his loan move to UAE side Al-Ain.
Categories: African News
ANC struggle song 'hate speech'
South Africa's High Court says the ruling ANC's anti-apartheid song constitutes "hate speech", in a case against youth leader Julius Malema.
Categories: African News
Darfur rebel leader flees Libya
The leader of Darfur's main Justice and Equality Movement (Jem) rebel group, Khalil Ibrahim, has returned from exile in Libya.
Categories: African News
Uganda 'rendition': Suspects free
Kenyan human rights activist Al-Amin Kimathi is one of five suspects in the 2010 Kampala World Cup bombing freed by a Ugandan court.
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