Activists say the woman gave birth alone in a forested area at the border with Belarus.

Most of the electricity in the capital is supplied by a Turkish ship floating off the country’s coast.

Thirty years after Nelson Mandela's election and apartheid's end, South Africans reflect on democracy.

BBC Africa is suspended for two weeks for covering a Human Rights Watch report on alleged mass killings.

South Africa's former president hits out at corruption within the governing party.