Pest, charming oddity or just background noise, the Hadeda ibis is a feathered phenomenon in suburban South Africa.

The World Wildlife Fund is trying to block proposed oil exploration in Africa's oldest national park where 200 gorillas live.

Gunmen killed a Muslim cleric and three others in a hail of bullets in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa, a year after the imam's predecessor was killed in the same manner and on the same road and nearly the same spot.