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Apartheid South Africa's outspoken critic Bishop Desmond Tutu wins the Nobel Peace Prize
The day that South Africa's anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela was freed
After Apartheid, South Africans tried to come to terms with their brutal past.
In 1998, al-Qaeda killed more than 200 people in attacks on US embassies in East Africa.
In January 1999, a combined rebel force invaded the capital of Sierra Leone, Freetown.
Hundreds of doomsday cult members were found murdered in Uganda in March 2000
Kenyan activist Wangari Maathai fought to save forests and protect human rights
How a Kenyan woman, Dame Daphne Sheldrick, first raised orphaned baby African elephants
How a conservationist tried to protect Congo's rainforest during the country's civil war.
When New York police shot a young immigrant 41 times, thousands took to the streets
In 2000, Zamfara became the first Nigerian state to implement full Sharia law
Twenty years ago underwater excavations began which unearthed a 2000 year old palace.
Survivors relive the tragedy of the arms dump explosion in Lagos, Nigeria, 2002
How the timber industry fuelled a brutal civil war in West Africa.
How a 13-year-old boy's life was changed by the war in Darfur in Sudan
How a South African team is searching for those who disappeared during apartheid rule
How the Islamic movement brought a brief moment of peace to Mogadishu after years of war
Captain Colin Darch and his crew were held hostage by pirates for 47 days in 2008
How a small Nigerian Islamist group launched a brutal insurgency
How Salum Barwany overcame discrimination and fear to make history in Africa
Israa Abd El Fattah was one of the first Egyptian activists to use Facebook for protests.
