Africa

DCI Neil Hibberd helped investigate the murder of David Tebbutt and the kidnap of his wife Jude.

The island nation of Cabo Verde is facing record levels of food insecurity due to drought, the COVID-19 pandemic and the conflict in Ukraine, affecting some 181,000 people, or 32 per cent of the country, the World Food Programme (WFP) reported on Thursday. 

President Cyril Ramaphosa vows to have learnt the lessons but many South Africans are not convinced.

Hunger is tightening its grip on more than 20 million Ethiopians who are facing conflict in the north, drought in the south and dwindling food and nutrition support beginning next month, the UN food relief agency warned on Thursday.

Student Temiloluwa asks The Academic Staff Union of Universities president why lecturers have been on strike.

As the UK presses on with its asylum deal, refugees sent from Israel to Rwanda describe their experiences.

  Efforts are underway to reinvigorate the Central African Republic’s political process, which has lapsed into a state of “de facto lethargy” even as horrific attacks against civilians have risen, the senior UN official in the country told the Security Council on Wednesday.

The Secretary-General issued a statement on Wednesday expressing his shock and outrage over reports that well over a hundred civilians have been killed in the past week, during attacks by armed extremists in central Mali, and further north.

Three students react to the Nigerian Medical and Dental Council's decision to not accept degrees from Ukrainian universities.

Many African leaders believe that a confrontational stance towards Russia is not in their interest.

UN humanitarians issued an alert on Tuesday over the deteriorating situation for millions of mainly women and children in northeast Nigeria who continue to be affected by protracted armed conflict, just as the country enters the lean season.

Members of the Maasai have fled from Loliondo in northern Tanzania to seek medical attention and food in Kenya.

With eight months remaining, the window of opportunity is closing for South Sudan to meet critical benchmarks required to complete its transition away from long-running civil conflict, the Special Representative for the country told the Security Council on Monday, pressing parties to the November 2018 peace deal, to implement their commitments in letter and spirit.

The resolution of a civil conflict fuelled-displacement crisis in Côte d'Ivoire, that at its height forced more than 300,000 people to flee to neighbouring countries and beyond, is “a welcome bright spot amid a rising global trend of forced displacement”, said the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, on Monday.

Rachel Keke, a left-wing candidate in Paris, is the first cleaner to become an MP in France.

The UN World Food Programme, WFP, said on Monday that it will have no choice but to make further food ration cuts soon for refugees.

The gold tooth of the assassinated Congolese independence hero and PM was all that remained of Mr Lumumba.

The Secretary-General strongly condemned on Sunday, an attack in Kidal, a city in northern Mali, against a convoy of UN peacekeepers that claimed the life of a blue helmet.

Jameisha Prescod explores the root of stigma towards sickle cell.

Rwandan journalists tell the BBC how oppression at home forced them to become refugees.