Ethiopia’s Tigray crisis: Fleeing for fear of new ethnic conflict

"War is inevitable - it is ethnic cleansing," says an Ethiopian doctor who has escaped to Sudan.

The South African community standing up to looters

The government said it would deploy 25,000 troops, after days of widespread looting and violence.

Champions League: Ahly coach Pitso Mosimane is torn by final against boyhood favourites

Al Ahly's South African coach Pitso Mosimane admits he is 'conflicted' by taking on Kaizer Chiefs in Saturday's Champions League final.

South Africa looting: Government to deploy 25,000 troops after unrest

Days of widespread violence and looting prompt the biggest deployment since the end of apartheid.

How Moroccan Asmaa Niang’s Olympic career was sparked by dreams of being a superhero.

Morocco’s Asmaa Niang will be competing in judo. This will be her second Games – but her Olympic career was sparked by her childhood dreams of being a superhero.

Climate change: ‘No more excuses’ at COP26 climate summit – poor nations

More than 100 developing countries set out key demands ahead of the climate summit in Glasgow.

Covid in Namibia: ‘Fifteen of my relatives have died’

Namibia is suffering one of the world's worst outbreaks of Covid, as ex-footballer Marley Ngarizemo can testify.

‘My husband was an angel – then he raped me’

Marital rape has long been a taboo issue in Egypt, but now victims are beginning to speak out.

South Africa looting: I’m struggling to find food

A Durban resident tells the BBC he is struggling to find any food after so many shops were looted.

South Africa Zuma riots: Mother on throwing baby from burning building

The building was allegedly set on fire by looters amid an eruption of riots across South Africa.