South Sudan's government is blocking desperately needed food aid and restricting United Nations peacekeepers, according to the UN.
An internal report from UN secretary-general Antonio...
Gambia's former leader Yahya Jammeh has arrived at Banjul Airport after finally agreeing to accept defeat.
Earlier, the Department of Foreign Affairs said it was...
A leading Egyptian activist behind the 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak has been released from prison after serving a three-year sentence for violating...
Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, who turns 93 in February, has been endorsed as the ruling party's candidate in a national election scheduled for 2018.
The...
Thousands of young children have died of starvation and disease in Boko Haram-ravaged north-eastern Nigeria, Doctors Without Borders said, quoting a new survey that...
Vietnamese authorities have destroyed more than two tonnes of seized elephant ivory and rhino horns ahead of a key international conference on wildlife trafficking.
The...