Africa
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Temporary structure held up by scaffolding fell down during construction of pedestrian and cycling overpass
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Players refuse to return home after playing match in Botswana
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Letters: I hope that AB InBev, as the new owner of SABMiller, will look into ActionAid’s allegations of tax-avoiding by its new purchase
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Senior administration official says deployment is part of efforts to fight Boko Haram as militant group expands beyond traditional base in Nigeria
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Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, chief of UN Women, told a security council meeting women were ‘perhaps the most under-utilised tool we have for building peace’
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Catholic campaign group claims Christians are disappearing from entire regions, notably Middle East and Africa, because of ‘ethnic cleansing’
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Ugandan activist says Nobel nomination ‘already a win’; working with survivors of the Lord’s Resistance Army; and marking the International Day of the Girl
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Outraged by the unlawful detention of a book group, Angolans are calling for an end to the injustice as the 40th anniversary of the country’s independence looms
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London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine finds that if Britain had set up beds one month earlier, about 7,500 people would not have become ill
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A domestic football match between AS Vita and Daring Motema descended into violence in Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday
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South Africans boasted of the parties they planned to hold at the Pretoria property where the former athlete killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp
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Zimbabwean environment minister says Walter Palmer’s big-game hunting trip was legal and he could not be charged
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Country was criticised after Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir visited in June and was allowed to leave despite court order to detain him
Topics
- South Africa
- Middle East and North Africa
- Conflict and development
- Ebola
- Wildlife
- Libya
- Zimbabwe
- Guinea
- Reeva Steenkamp shooting
- Medical research
- Animals
- United Nations
- Nigeria
- Boko Haram
- Sustainable development goals
- International criminal justice
- Sierra Leone
- International criminal court
- Oscar Pistorius
- Central African Republic
Hunter accused over Cecil the lion hunt says charges should be dropped