Ten passengers aboard a Congolese airliner were slightly injured Thursday when the plane overshot the runway as it landed at a regional airport, witnesses and the airline said.

Zimbabwean security forces have started withdrawing from the country's eastern diamond fields to meet Kimberley Process reforms over human rights abuses, the government said Thursday.

Trudging out of the woods in a heavy downpour with a large sack roped to his back and two black chickens cradled in his arms, Eric arap Tuwei joins his wife and six children in a flimsy grass shelter.

1Up to 2,700 Zimbabwean asylum seekers have set up a temporary “safety camp” in a rural South African town following attacks on their shacks in a dispute over jobs, a human rights group said on Wednesday.

Mozambique's main opposition party says the ruling party stuffed ballot boxes and expelled opposition monitors from polling stations to help it win the country's Oct. 28 presidential election.

An African has taken over as director of Greenpeace, bringing experience honed as a teenage opponent of white rule in South Africa and a network of powerful contacts to the battle against global warming.

An Algerian court on Friday sentenced to death in his absence the head of al-Qaida of the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Abdelmalek Droukdel, and 48 fellow defendants over a 2007 bomb attack in Algiers.

Six non-governmental aid agencies have suspended operations in eastern Chad after the kidnapping of a Red Cross worker and a surge in attacks on relief agencies there, the U.N. said Friday.

The head of Rwanda's national airline says one person has died after a passenger plane crashed into the airport's VIP lounge.

Africa faces a surge in cancer deaths unless action is taken in the next decade to stem rising smoking levels in a continent where anti-tobacco laws remain rare, U.S. scientists said on Wednesday.