UK launches East Africa emergency appeal

More than 16 million people in Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and South Sudan need food and water.

Living with volcanoes

The archipelago where the landscape is idyllic but life tough.

The South Africa township women learning tech

In Cape Town a new scheme is helping women develop web literacy.

Inside emergency feeding centre for children in Nigeria

Time is running out to save 20 million people facing famine in Africa and the Middle East, says the UN.

Inside emergency feeding centre for children in Nigeria

Time is running out to save 20 million people facing famine in Africa and the Middle East, says the UN.

Kenya doctors end strike after signing government deal

Doctors will receive increased allowances as negotiations on other issues continue.

Letter from Africa: How Nigerians obsess about life in the US

Not even Trump can stop a Nigerian's quest for a better life, says novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani.

Libya’s Khalifa Haftar ‘retakes oil ports from Islamist militia’

Gen Haftar's forces say they have recaptured oil terminals as Russia denies special forces support.

Michael Essien: Ghanaian joins Indonesian side Persib Bandung

Former Chelsea and Ghana midfielder Michael Essien joins Indonesian side Persib Bandung.

Rhino horns worth $5m seized in Thailand off flight from Ethiopia

The haul found in luggage on a flight from Ethiopia is is the biggest for several years.