The three junta-led West African nations of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have formally withdrawn from the regional bloc known ...

Cricketer Firooza Amiri says her team will "represent millions of women in Afghanistan who are denied their rights” when the ...

Forecasts suggest that by 2100 a majority of the world’s babies will be African, leading to predictions of an “African ...

Thirty African Heads of State and governments today committed to concrete reforms and actions to expand access to reliable, affordable, and sustainable electricity to power economic growth, improve ...

One woman who was carrying her child and a few belongings told the BBC's Great Lakes service: “Bombs from clashes kept ...

The crew of the Hong Kong-flagged ASL Bauhinia have abandoned the container ship in the Red Sea after it caught fire on Tuesday, two maritime sources said, adding the cause of the incident was not ...

Rebels led by the M23 group claim to have taken control of Goma, a key city in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Gaie Delap, 78, was jailed for 20 months in August for taking part in a blockade on the M25 in November 2022 that caused ...

The M23 rebel group, which has taken control of large parts of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in recent years ...

"The good news outside Morgan, who at 25 has 15 caps, is that Wales have a good blend of youth, mid-term and experience. This ...

Fighting across Goma "is still very much ongoing", senior UN official Bruno Lemarquis has said, Reuters news agency reports, after M23 rebels claimed they had seized the largest city in eastern ...

Rwanda-backed Congolese rebels from the M23 movement have announced the capture of the major city of Goma in the eastern ...