It's another weekend of African Champions League football and Zimbabwe's Dynamos hope to get their campaign back on track.

A pet tiger that escaped in South Africa is found after a two-day search with helicopters, a tracker and sniffer dogs.

Unions representing South African public sector workers say the government has seven days to make a deal to stop a planned strike.

A well leaking oil and gas after being struck by a vessel off the southeastern Louisiana coast Tuesday could be capped as early as noon Wednesday if all goes as planned, Jefferson Parish Councilman Chris Roberts told CNN.

Four white South Africans plead guilty to humiliating five black workers at a university after a video of the incident was posted on the internet.

Zeinab Badawi talks to Uganda's President Yoweri Musaveni about the African Union's new troop role in Somalia.

Rangers chief executive Martin Bain has held talks with representatives of South African World Cup pair Bongani Khumalo and Katlego Mphela.

A tiger which was being kept as a pet in South Africa escapes from the back of a truck and is running loose.

Did African divisions hamper efforts to save French hostage?

Nicolas Sarkozy confirms the death of a French hostage killed by suspected al-Qaeda militants in north-west Africa, condemning it as "odious".

Japan's NTT to pay $3.2bn for South Africa's Dimension Data.

Key facts, figures and dates

Key facts. figures and dates

A profile of the Spanish north African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla

One of South Africa's best-known artists, William Kentridge makes unsettling work about apartheid -- and he is now making a name for himself internationally.

Sentencing was due to take place Wednesday for four white former university students who pleaded guilty to humiliating black workers in a video.

The African Union summit ended Tuesday without a resolution to change the mandate of its mission in Somalia from peacekeeping to peace enforcing, despite calls from some African leaders to do so.

The lack of a global response to the Somali crisis has created fertile ground for threats to regional peace in Eastern Africa and the rest of the continent, the president of the African Union Commission said.

Voters in Guinea cast ballots Sunday in the first free election since the west African nation gained independence in 1958.