Africa

The resurgence of the M23 armed group has “broad repercussions” for the security, human rights and humanitarian situation in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and for the wider region, the UN Special Representative there told the Security Council on Wednesday.

Leaders in Libya must resolve outstanding issues so that long-awaited presidential and parliamentary elections can finally be held, UN political affairs chief Rosemary DiCarlo told the Security Council on Monday. 

Post-mortem examinations will be carried out shortly to determine the cause of mysterious deaths.

Original Ife bronze heads, of which only some 20 survive, are thought to be about 700 years old.

A huge crowd of migrants storm a fence into Melilla in North Africa, with 23 killed and many injured.

Sharon Juhl is not your ordinary clown, he is a medical clown bringing smiles to hospitalised children.

Diana Mwazi is one of many young Kenyans who see elections as a way to make money, not bring change.

The prince also tells Commonwealth leaders it is up to nations whether they remain monarchies.

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.