Africa

Kenyan lawmakers try to side step court orders delaying plans for a police deployment to Haiti. More than 100 people, including 16 children, have died and over 700,000 forced out of their homes because of flash flooding in the Horn of Africa.

Tanzania's Hadzabe community lives a traditional hunter-gatherer lifestyle, but climate change already threatens their way of life. What is being done to protect small, indigenous communities like this one?

Africa is seeking an action plan on the back of growing calls for compensation for the historical enslavement of millions of its people at a conference in Ghana. Meanwhile in the Central African Republic, the UN Security Council has adopted a resolution to renew its local peacekeeping mission – MINUSCA – for another year in the country plagued by instability and fighting.

Ethiopia and Eritrea made peace in 2018, formally ending their border conflict. But control of the Assab port which serves both countries is sparking new tensions with fears it could lead to a fresh dispute.

YouTube's blockbuster creator MrBeast has released a video in which he claims he built 100 wells across Africa. While such a philanthropic endeavor might seem commendable, it unexpectedly ignited a storm of backlash from Kenyan activists and journalists. What are the unintended effects of the YouTuber's actions?

Floods, droughts and other extreme weather events have contributed to millions of children lacking access to basic water services, according to the latest report by UNICEF.

Saliou Ndiaye spent five years in prison, after attempting to join jihadist groups in Syria. Today, he reflects on his religious views and wants to build a future in Senegal to help his community.

A Rwandan doctor is on trial in Paris, accused of complicity in the 1994 genocide. He denies the charges against him, but the plaintiffs say the case has symbolic significance.

The UN on Friday warned of soaring human rights violations in Sudan's Darfur region and said they were “verging on pure evil,” amid escalating fighting seven months into the war between the army and paramilitaries.

What happened to the victims of war crimes in Liberia, still waiting for justice, 20 years after two devastating civil wars? Six years ago, President George Weah had pledged to establish an economic and war crimes court.

Thomas Kaydor, a political sciences lecturer at the University of Liberia, agreed. “Even if you add up all the votes from the 25 remaining polling stations, George Weah cannot win,” he said. According to Friday's figure, Boakai was 28,000 votes ahead of Weah. Just over 1.6 million ballots have been counted.

South Africa's firbrand politician, Julius Malema, gave a dynamic speech at the launch of the Pan-African Institute, in which he criticzed Kenya's President William Ruto. Malema received enthusiastic cheers from the audience. But did he cross a line and break the African etiquette that a guest does not speak ill of their host?