Africa

The UN says 500 people still at a detention centre hit by air strikes are vulnerable to new raids.

Archaeologists dive down to underwater tombs to access them for the first time in 100 years.

Who is Magid Magid and what barriers has he overcome to take his seat at the European Parliament?

Sara-Jayne King struggled to find her place in the world after being taken abroad and given up for adoption.

The aircraft maker says the money is for the education and welfare of communities hit by the disasters.

After nationwide protests across Sudan on Sunday, UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet on Wednesday called on Sudanese authorities to lift restrictions on the internet and launch independent investigations into all acts of violence against demonstrators, and allegations of excessive force, including attacks on hospitals.

An airstrike on a detention centre in Tripoli that killed scores of migrants and refugees “deserves more than condemnation”, UN agencies said on Wednesday, as both the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the head of the UN mission in Libya (UNSMIL), insisted that it may amount to a war crime. 

Most of those killed in the alleged air strike are believed to be sub-Saharan Africans.

As Uganda become the latest team to become embroiled in a dispute over pay, we explain why this type of row happens so often with African teams.

Zimbabwean Chengetayi ditched the corporate world and now pursues her love of dancing full time.

Thousands took to the streets of several cities, blocking roads with sit-ins and burning tyres.

A body from a Kenya Airways flight fell into a garden in south London on Sunday.

Kenya's aviation authority says the man who fell from a plane over London "probably" had access to the airport's secure area.

Food aid is being tripled for troubled Ituri province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), to respond to what the World Food Programme (WFP) has described as the world’s second largest hunger crisis in the world, after Yemen.

Critics say it is about erasing the contribution of ethnic Tutsis and replacing them with Hutus.

Protesters are continuing to take to the streets, calling for an end to military rule in the country.

The deadly Ebola virus has spread, but are attacks and insecurity affecting the response?

Just a few weeks ago, Abiy Ahmed was feted across Africa but deadly attacks threatens his reforms.

Fake accounts trying to capitalise on social media campaigns are rife on the photo-sharing platform.

Chief Mkwawa died 16 years before WW1 began but his skull was mentioned in the treaty that ended the conflict.