Heavy rains and a ceaseless stream of the hungry and sick fleeing a contested border area are creating an epidemiological disaster, said Doctors Without Borders.

Kenya's lions under pressure from human settlement

Many Libyans still hope that the election of a new national congress will offer a more peaceful way to resolve differences.

In a third week of protest against the government, the demonstrations in greater Khartoum and other Sudanese cities have remained small but show signs of gathering momentum.

Antigovernment protesters in and around Khartoum, the capital, and in other cities clashed with riot police officers on Friday as demonstrations stretched into a third week.

With elections scheduled for Saturday, and a weak interim government, those divisions between Libya’s regions and tribes have been magnified, threatening to tear the nation apart as it struggles to build a unified national identity.

In times past, farming in Ghana was regarded as a job for the uneducated and illiterate. Going into farming or any agricultural venture was, therefore, an anathema to the educated, much less so for university graduates. However, since the introduction of enterprising agricultural polices and models, as well as the institution of the National Be ...

Fleeing the war in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains, a new generation of Lost Boys, and some girls too, is being born.

More and more Sudanese have begun challenging their government, but it is unclear if a real Arab Spring has reached the country.

The Security Council on Thursday endorsed West African political efforts to end unrest in Mali but stopped short of backing military intervention.