Africa

Burns survivor Obumneke-Okeke Kosisochukwu says writing helped him heal after a terrible accident.

The policies that have shaped the image of Tanzania's no-nonsense president.

Women have been leading protests against rape in Somalia's Puntland region after a spate of attacks.

In 2016 Ivorian Cheik Cisse became the first African to win a taekwondo Olympic gold.

Ghanaians don't really need watches as most meetings start 45 minutes late.

The presidential result was not a surprise but there have been some big shocks in the parliamentary vote.

Farah Khaleck has a rare and incurable condition which causes the hardening and tightening of her skin.

Family pressure did not stop Cameroonian artist Ajarb Bernard Ategwa from finding success.

The Secretary-General António Guterres said on Friday that he “strongly condemns the deadly terrorist attacks” that took place in the Somali capital Mogadishu late on Thursday local time, which reportedly killed more than 20 people, with scores injured.

Why tens of thousands of people are protesting against the ailing 81-year-old president.

An agreement by Libya’s Prime Minister and a key rival military leader to improve political stability across the country through new general elections, has been welcomed by the UN Secretary-General.

The land is sandy, dry and scorched by the searing sun of the African Sahel, but that has not stopped the planting of some 50,000 trees at a camp for Nigerian refugees in the far north-east corner of Cameroon.

Worsening security in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo marked by attacks on Ebola clinics have made it a “given” that the deadly virus will spread further, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.

An exhibition seeks to commemorate colonial soldiers who lost their lives in World War One.

A selection of photographs from around the African continent over the past week.

A teacher holds up a drawing of an adolescent girl who has just been caught unawares by her first menstruation cycle, while at school. She’s addressing neat rows of young women sitting in class, in the town of Bol, in Chad.

A large fire blazing in Mount Kenya is blamed on farmers clearing an area to plant marijuana.

A mystery man who reports news from one of the most repressive countries in the world gives his first interview.

Photographer Annie Risemberg documents the French bread bakeries that are ubiquitous in Bamako, Mali.

The day seven blind trekkers reached the top of Mount Kilimanjaro.