The link between climate change, seaweed and ice cream

Seaweed production has been affected by warming seas – this is how farmers are adapting.

Rugby Championship: Australia beat South Africa 30-17 in Brisbane

Australia secure their second successive win over world champions South Africa in the Rugby Championship.

Abdelaziz Bouteflika: Former Algerian president dies aged 84

Bouteflika led Algeria for 20 years, but his bid for a fifth term led to huge protests in 2019.

Kenya’s CBC education reform: How scarecrows are terrifying parents

A new school curriculum means challenging tasks end up being performed by parents not their children.

Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Algeria’s longest-serving president dies

The former president, whose decades-long rule sparked massive protests, has died aged 84.

Sexual abuse scandal overshadows start of Women’s Afrobasket finals

Africa's women's basketballers start the continental championships on Saturday under the shadow of a major sexual abuse scandal.

Turkana: The front line of climate change

There are few places in the world where the consequences of a changing climate are as plain to see as in northern Kenya.

Africa’s week in pictures: 10-16 September 2021

A selection of the best photos from the African continent and beyond.

Kenyan blogger: ‘I thought I may never make it out of Qatar’

A Kenyan blogger who wrote about working conditions in Qatar was thrown into solitary confinement, given a huge fine and deported.

Somalia political rift intensifies amid row over missing spy

The president cuts the powers of the prime minister, who remains defiant.