How the internet is helping Ugandan businesses

Ugandan firms discuss how their businesses are continuing to run despite the coronavirus lockdown.

Epic 7,500-mile cuckoo migration wows scientists

Scientists have tracked a cuckoo's migratory flight from Africa to its breeding ground in Mongolia.

US says Russia sent jets to Libya ‘mercenaries’

Russia urges peace talks as the US accuses it of meddling in the Libya conflict.

US says Russia sent jets to Libya ‘mercenaries’

Russia urges peace talks as the US accuses it of meddling in the Libya conflict.

Zambian jailed gay couple pardoned in presidential amnesty

Their 15-year sentence triggered a diplomatic row resulting in the recalling of the US ambassador.

Coronavirus: Egypt doctors accuse government over medics’ deaths

A union says the health ministry bears "full responsibility" for doctors' deaths from Covid-19.

Trafficked Nigerian women rescued from Lebanon

The 50 return home a month after a woman working as a maid in Beirut was put up for sale on Facebook.

Trafficked Nigerian women rescued from Lebanon

The 50 return home a month after a woman working as a maid in Beirut was put up for sale on Facebook.

Coronavirus in South Africa: Smokers fume at cigarette ban

The government is to ease lockdown restrictions and allow the sale of alcohol - but not cigarettes.

Coronavirus in Sudan exposes new leaders

Some medics have refused to work and elderly people have been dying, writes Zeinab Mohammed Salih.