Asamoah Gyan: Ghana striker reverses decision to retire after call from president

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Ghana striker Asamoah Gyan reverses his decision to retire from international football after speaking to the country's president.

‘I got death threats. My children got death threats’

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When Ugandan MPs tried to introduce life imprisonment and the death penalty for gay sex, a small group of activists spoke out. Victor Mukasa was one of them.

Binyavanga Wainaina: Kenyan author and gay rights activist dies

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Prize-winning writer and critic Binyavanga Wainaina dies at the age of 48 in Nairobi.

Sudan crisis: Ayman Maw, the rapper who joined the protests

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Rapper Ayman Maw joined Sudan's pro-democracy protesters after returning from exile in the US.

Being black in Nazi Germany

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A new film explores the little-known story of Germany's mixed-race population in the 1930s and 1940s.

Being black in Nazi Germany

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A new film explores the little-known story of Germany's mixed-race population in the 1930s and 1940s.

Virginia Uber driver was Somali war criminal – jury

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Thirty-one years after he was left for dead, one of the taxi-driver's victims has his day in court.

Libya crisis: UN warns battle for Tripoli is ‘start of a bloody war’

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The UN envoy says that unless the flow of arms to Libya stops there could be a descent into chaos.

Libya crisis: UN warns battle for Tripoli is ‘start of a bloody war’

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The UN envoy says that unless the flow of arms to Libya stops there could be a descent into chaos.

Cosafa Cup: Angola withdrawal weakens tournament further

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Angola become the second Africa Cup of Nations-bound sides, with Madagascar, to withdraw from southern Africa's Cosafa Cup.