Africa

School children in Mozambique are facing what a senior United Nations and World Bank official in the southern African country are calling “catastrophic outcomes” from the COVID-19 pandemic. By the UN Resident Coordinator in Mozambique, Myrta Kaulard, and Mark Lundell, World Bank Country Director.

African countries have “demonstrated commendable leadership” battling the COVID-19 pandemic, but more nations across the continent where conflict prevails, should heed the UN call for a global ceasefire to push back the deadly virus, said the Secretary-General on Monday.

South Africa's Mponeng gold mine only resumed operations in April following a national lockdown.

Life for children whose parents work on the frontline against Covid-19 has changed.

Félicien Kabuga outwitted Rwandan genocide prosecutors by using 28 aliases and powerful connections.

The BBC's Mercy Juma had to watch her cousin's burial online - until her internet connection failed.

A Dubai-based couple are still stuck at a deserted resort, more than two months after their wedding.

African firms tell the BBC how they are solving problems caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Friday condemned a fresh wave of intercommunal violence in the world’s youngest nation, South Sudan, that has left hundreds dead across 28 villages in Jonglei State, according to local authorities. 

President Magufuli says cases are falling, but the government hasn't released new official figures. What do we know?

Private Joseph Hammond is fundraising for frontline workers and vulnerable veterans across Africa.

The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic are acute for Somalia, but the Horn of Africa nation is doing what it can with the resources it has, even as it looks ahead to its first direct elections in a half-century, the top UN official in the country said on Thursday.

How the continent's sense of vulnerability may help it adapt to yet another deadly disease.

A group of South African actors in lockdown are making a hit online soap opera from their homes.

Tens of millions of people in Africa could become destitute as a result of COVID-19 and its catastrophic impact on fragile economies and health systems across the continent, human rights chiefs from the United Nations and the African Commission warned on Wednesday. 

Ugandan and Mamelodi Sundowns goalkeeper Denis Onyango is still working hard to keep fit, despite the uncertainty surrounding the return of football in South Africa.

The coronavirus pandemic threatens the hard-earned gains Africans have made throughout the continent, the UN chief said on Wednesday, urging the world to stand in solidarity with the people, “now, and for recovering better”.

UN chief António Guterres is encouraging Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan to persevere with efforts to overcome their differences and reach agreement on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.

The civil war in Libya is in danger of intensifying as foreign intervention grows and the spectre of the COVID-19 pandemic adds to a deepening sense of insecurity, the head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) told the Security Council on Tuesday.

Opposition activists, including an MP, say they were beaten and forced to drink urine by state agents.