Africa

Dozens of people in western Cameroon were killed after gunmen stormed a village in the town of Mamfe, in the English-speaking region of the country, where rebels seeking to create a breakaway state and government forces are battling for control.

It's one of the biggest challenges facing education systems worldwide: gender inequality. Though improvements have closed or even reversed gender gaps in schools in recent years, there's still significant room for progress, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. According to UNESCO, more than half of all girls out of primary and secondary school are on the African continent.

More than 800 people have been killed by armed groups in Sudan's West Darfur region in just a few days. The UN has called for "an immediate end to the fighting."

A literacy project in Luanda, Angola's capital, has taken to the streets. The project aims to combat illiteracy and promote educational opportunities.

President George Weah takes on former vice president Joseph Boakai in an election run-off on Tuesday that one analyst has warned could be tense and highly competitive. David Doyle explains what to expect from the vote.

Young Entrepreneurs Sherif Ghali and Paulina Adjei tell DW what steps are necessary to deal with the current economic conditions. They are both associated with AGYLE - which builds a bridge between young German and African managers and establishes a sustainable business network.

Two years have passed since the #EndSARS protest but for some young Nigerians, the trauma lives on. Some have even been diagnosed with PTSD, a condition arising from shocking, dangerous or terrifying events. In this episode of Healthy Me, Dr. Chinonso Egemba meets a young man with post-traumatic stress disorder.

Clashes between M23 rebels and the Congolese army have been resuming in the province of North Kivu since early October. Against this backdrop, the UN peacekeeping mission in the east of the country, MONUSCO, has announced the launch of Operation Springbok: a joint MONUSCO-Congolese armed forces operation aimed at halting the M23 advance.

The worst flooding to hit Somalia in decades has killed 29 people and forced more than 300,000 to flee their homes, the National Disaster Management Agency said on Wednesday, following heavy rains that have inundated towns across East Africa.

The first round of negotiations on the sudanese conflict ended in Jeddah, between the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese army... The meeting has not been able to reach a cease fire, although the 2 warring parties committed to facilitate humanitarian aid...

Floods caused by heavy rains across parts of Somalia have displaced more than 113,000 people and "temporarily affected" hundreds of thousands, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) said on Monday.

Mali has announced plans to build several nuclear power plants in cooperation with Russian energy firm Rosatom. But is such an undertaking feasible?