Nigeria's national soccer team, better known as the Super Eagles, won this year's Africa Cup of Nations in South Africa. But now the team has come crashing back down to earth with the news that the Nigeria Football Federation is broke. It has had ...

South Africa is bringing all its soldiers home from the Central African Republic, saying they do not belong in a country that is no longer democratic. At least 13 South African troops died in a firefight late last month as rebels entered the capit...

Days after the UN approved its first-ever combat force for deployment in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the UN is now issuing an ultimatum to the DRC government. The UN has given the government until Tuesday to find the culprits behind a series...

Voting on Zimbabwe's new constitution has begun. The referendum is expected to receive a 'Yes' vote, approving the constitutional overhaul which would place term limits on presidential power. Zimbabwe's current president, Robert Mugabe, would not ...

Oscar Pistorius has gone to court to fight what he says are unwarranted and unfair bail conditions. The Paralympian's lawyers say he is not a proven flight risk and want him to have the opportunity to travel overseas. They are challenging over hal...

Throngs of Kenyans lined up peacefully to vote in general elections today just hours after as many as 17 people, some of them police, were hacked to death by machete-wielding attackers near Mobasa. Officials are blaming members of separatist movem...

With Kenya's elections just days away, thousands of voters have fled their homes in the Naivasha region, fearing a repeat of the violence that killed more than 1,200 people five years ago. Rights groups say violence and intimidation is surging des...

Warning: Disturbing Content. South African law enforcement watchdog the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) is investigating the death of a Mozambican man at the hands of police in Daveyton, east of Johannesburg. The probe follows...

The world has watched in shock and disbelief as South African paralympian sensation Oscar Pistorius undergoes investigation for the murder of his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Now his brother Carl is being charged with culpable homicide for a ...

Many Kenyans will be voting for the first time in March's presidential election. Research groups say the youth have the power to make the deciding vote. eNCA's East Africa bureau chief Robyn Kriel, finds out what they require from the candidates t...