A new generation of Sierra Leoneans is eager to show visitors that the nation's civil war is long gone and reintroduce one of ...

She plays 13-year-old Nawi, the eponymous heroine of the coming-of-age film set in Turkana county, a rural area which borders Uganda and where the UN says one in four girls are married before they are ...

Mzwandile Mkwayi volunteered to go down into the shaft to help save the lives of scores of South African miners.

She was torpedoed by a German submarine and sank 800 miles from the coast of Africa. I was a five month old baby. For six days and five nights, my parents and I were crammed in an overcrowded lifeboat ...

"As well as wanting the audience to be entertained - because the play is good fun - I wanted to add another dimension to people's understanding of Africa," Desta tells the BBC. "I wanted to write ...

Why has the case against the Kenyan police officers allegedly involved in the death of six-month old Samantha Pendo been delayed yet again? Seven years on, her parents are still seeking justice after ...

"I knew the words of the popular songs. It was taken for granted." Maureen became deaf after a reaction to antibiotics and she describes how frustrating deafness can be. Music - Frank Sinatra, "Time ...

It will be a "mammoth task" to identify the bodies brought up from a disused mineshaft in South Africa this week ... free to come out at any time. This story contains a video that some people ...

At one point, it had one of the highest lion population densities in Africa, according to African Parks. The Zimbabwe Parks & Wildlife Management Authority confirmed the incident to the BBC but ...