Mandela and wife voted heroes by world's children
The 7,136,222 voting children have elected Graca Machel and Nelson Mandela as their first Decade Child Heroes.
Venezuelan drugs Boeing crashed in Mali
In July Guinea security forces discovered large quantities of chemicals used to produce heroin from opium, cocaine and ecstasy.
No 'licence to kill' for S.African police
No police officer has permission to shoot suspects in circumstances other than those provided for by law.
Traditional rulers must apologise for slavery
Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, is in a fresh bid to re-write its constitution.
New dinosaur discovered in South Africa
The Aardonyx appears to be ancestors of the massive sauropod dinosaurs, the largest backboned animals ever to walk on land.
S.African police shoot 3-year-old boy
The police officer in question was arrested soon after the shooting - the directorate's spokesman Moses Dlamini told AFP.
Obama lion raises money for conservation in Kenya
A life-sized lion statue with Barack Obama\'s face painted on has helped raise some 170,000 dollars for lion conservation in Kenya.
Southern Africa opens emergency summit on Zimbabwe
The summit also includes leaders from the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa, Swaziland and Zambia.
Volcanic eruptions may split Africa
They cite Africa, which underwent a similar phase when it split from America millions of years ago.
First malaria vaccine ready in 3-5 years
Malaria is the world's deadliest infectious disease. It kills around 900,000 people every year in sub-Saharan Africa.
Mozambique's Guebuza is landslide polls winner
Mozambique's President Armando Guebuza was declared the "landslide" winner of last week's polls.
4.8-magnitude quake rocks west Algeria
An earthquake measuring 4.8 on the open-ended Richter scale hit the Ain Defla region, about 150 kilometres west of Algiers.
