When Cecil the lion was hunted down and killed by a US dentist, it was feared the slaughter would not stop there.

Consciences stir as report reveals how burden of disenfranchisement falls on poor blacks excluded for life.

The second great space race is under way.

Off the beaten track in Morocco, Derek Cheng ducks into a public bath house for a refreshing dip and a massage.

There's an intriguing Kiwi connection to Uganda's Wildwater Lodge.

Victoria Falls on the great Zambezi River is a welcoming tourist hub, finds Jennifer Ennion.

Rum cocktails are de rigueur on the French island of Reunion, finds Kevin Pilley.

A New Zealand-based lecturer is mourning the loss of his brother who was killed after falling down a 400m cliff while exploring caves in Morocco.

French special forces unexpectedly found and freed a Dutch hostage during a dawn assault on al-Qaeda fighters in the Sahara desert in northern Mali.

As wonders of the world go, the Victoria Falls are astonishingly uncrowded, says Sandra McGregor.

Vodafone New Zealand is helping to boost education in refugee areas with the development of its instant classroom - a digital "school in a box".

For John Simpson, gritty, sunny Johannesburg is South Africa's golden city.

Tony Blair advised an African president on how to win over public support in the aftermath of clashes in which opposition protesters were shot dead by security forces.

Guests at Robert Mugabe's million-dollar birthday party were fed a young elephant, while a lion and a crocodile were also sacrificed as gifts to be stuffed.

Former Australian cricketer Glenn McGrath has issued a public apology after images surfaced online of him participating in a big game hunt in Zimbabwe.

Richard Madden finds it impossible not to be moved by the sight of a pride of lions or a leopard and her cubs in Tanzania.

The government has promised to disinfect it. But parents are wary as their children are sent back to school in what was recently an Ebola isolation centre.

Schools are reopening, but in three Ebola-ravaged African countries, children have had their innocence stolen by a virus.

At least 10 people have been killed in violent protests in the West African nation of Niger over the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo's depiction of the Prophet Muhammad.

Somaliland has become a bastion of democracy and stability compared with Mogadishu and other areas in the war-torn south, writes Christopher Adams.

Dave Tomu, 55, moved to Auckland from Masvingo, Zimbabwe, in 2000 not long after his first marriage broke up.

Aformer Army officer and Afghanistan veteran has endured marauding militias, searing temperatures and close encounters with wildlife to become the first person to walk the length of the world's....

Authorities are trying to trace all 71 passengers on a Heathrow to Glasgow flight who may have been exposed to Ebola.

You can take a role in testing the effect of warming skin on memory. Or you can involve yourself in a bid to land a spaceship on the Moon....

As one of the most photographed men in the world, Prince Harry knows a thing or two about having a camera pointed at you.

A veteran of the Bay of Pigs invasion, he fought alongside Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos, and has a treasure trove of anecdotes...

A New Zealand nurse who spent time working in Ebola-hit Sierra Leone says an end to the outbreak is in sight.