Eight parties unite and call on ruling ANC MPs to ‘search their conscience’ and vote against leader accused of corruption
Barack and Mitt finally feel brotherly love … thanks to their Kenyan mother
Twins born in a hospital close to Obama’s ancestral home village named to mark the events in the US on their birthday
Julius Malema ‘unshaken’ after money laundering charge
Firebrand politician mocks South African president after reports that he would face more serious charges prove unfounded
Kenyan Amisom peacekeeper held after ‘shooting dead six Somali civilians’
African Union offensive against al-Shabaab may be undermined by what Somali army spokesman calls ‘deliberate killing’
Striking South Africa platinum miners agree deal with Lonmin
Miners to return to work after pay rise ends five weeks of bitter industrial action during which 45 people were killed
Ethiopian PM Meles Zenawi’s death sparks fears of turmoil
Mourners throng outside airport and world leaders pay tribute, but human rights groups condemn 21-year authoritarian reign
Somalis planning on a better future
David Smith talks to some of the extraordinary characters who believe 2012 will be remembered as the year that Somalia, finally, turned the corner
South African miners’ families back Julius Malema’s call for nationalisation
Jacob Zuma is criticised as former ANC youth leader says the president sided with mine owner when 34 were killed
South African police ‘shot miners to protect themselves’
Police chief says officers opened fire and killed 34 strikers because they were being charged at with dangerous weapons
Miners’ wives rage at South African police brutality after ‘massacre’
Women performing apartheid-era toyi-toyi dance condemn mine company as they wait for news of victims of police shootings
South African police shoot dead striking miners
Up to 18 people killed at Lonmin platinum mine where strike over pay has escalated into alleged turf war between unions
London 2012: Rwandan mountain biker rides to banish genocide memory
Adrien Niyonshuti lost most of his family in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Against the odds he’s competing at the Games mountain bike cross-country race