Africa

Visiting restaurants or buying homes can be problems for headscarf wearers, BBC News Arabic finds.

Moroccan singer, Abir, has trichotillomania, a mental health disorder which causes the urge to pull hair out.

BBC's Kalkidan Yibeltal explains what lies behind the renewed violence in northern Ethiopia.

Togo is the latest country to buy the drones, which have proven their usefulness around the world.

ICC prosecutor Karim Khan says the people of Sudan have been waiting for justice for too long.

The weekend's deadly hotel siege served as a reminder that the militants remain a potent threat.

Raila Odinga has been mocked for challenging election results but each case improves Kenya's democracy.

The once thriving city of Bamenda has been destroyed by fighting between secessionists and Cameroon's government.

In July, a UN human rights officer embarked on an outreach visit to the Horn of Africa’s Sool and Sanaag regions, a seven-day round-trip of more than 1,600 kilometres by road.

Armed groups in the Central African Republic (CAR) must lay down their arms and engage in political dialogue, a UN-appointed independent human rights expert said on Friday, urging the international community to strengthen efforts to restore State authority and end impunity there.

Rising acute food insecurity in Somalia has caused more than 900,000 people to flee their homes in search of humanitarian assistance since January last year, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned.

The United Nations continues to engage with authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in the wake of the deadly shooting this past weekend involving peacekeepers from its Mission there, MONUSCO. 

Healthy life expectancy among Africans living in mainly high and upper middle-income countries on the continent, has increased by almost 10 years, the UN health agency, WHO, said on Thursday.

The BBC looks at some of the lighter moments in Kenya's general election campaign.

A powerful new sculpture unveiled at UN Headquarters on Wednesday honours the memory and mission of two human rights experts who were murdered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) five years ago. 

The al-Qaeda leader's death hits home to those he robbed of a husband, a wife, or their eyesight.

The police want help to build a case against fraudsters but Nigeria criminalises gay relations.

Gernot Rohr wants the Nigeria Football Federation to settle its outstanding debt to him, but his former employers insist he will not have to wait long to be paid.

Abdi Hussein Ahmed is suspected of links to a transnational wildlife and drug trafficking syndicate.

The management consultancy cannot work for the UK government for three years over 'misconduct' in South Africa.