Africa

Russia urges peace talks as the US accuses it of meddling in the Libya conflict.

Their 15-year sentence triggered a diplomatic row resulting in the recalling of the US ambassador.

A union says the health ministry bears "full responsibility" for doctors' deaths from Covid-19.

The 50 return home a month after a woman working as a maid in Beirut was found for sale on Facebook.

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak in East Africa, the UN Human Rights regional office, based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, has been contributing to the COVID-19 response of UN country teams in the region, by ensuring that human rights protection for vulnerable people is included in their plans. The head of the office, Nwanneakolam Vwede-Obahor, shared some of the challenges she and her colleagues are facing.

In Malawi, where children with albinism face attacks, and even ritual killings, going to school can expose them to life-threatening dangers. The UN is helping to make schools safer for these vulnerable students. 

Cyril Ramaphosa nevertheless announces an easing of the lockdown, and that alcohol sales can resume.

School children in Mozambique are facing what a senior United Nations and World Bank official in the southern African country are calling “catastrophic outcomes” from the COVID-19 pandemic. By the UN Resident Coordinator in Mozambique, Myrta Kaulard, and Mark Lundell, World Bank Country Director.

African countries have “demonstrated commendable leadership” battling the COVID-19 pandemic, but more nations across the continent where conflict prevails, should heed the UN call for a global ceasefire to push back the deadly virus, said the Secretary-General on Monday.

South Africa's Mponeng gold mine only resumed operations in April following a national lockdown.

Life for children whose parents work on the frontline against Covid-19 has changed.

Félicien Kabuga outwitted Rwandan genocide prosecutors by using 28 aliases and powerful connections.

The BBC's Mercy Juma had to watch her cousin's burial online - until her internet connection failed.

A Dubai-based couple are still stuck at a deserted resort, more than two months after their wedding.

African firms tell the BBC how they are solving problems caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Friday condemned a fresh wave of intercommunal violence in the world’s youngest nation, South Sudan, that has left hundreds dead across 28 villages in Jonglei State, according to local authorities. 

President Magufuli says cases are falling, but the government hasn't released new official figures. What do we know?

Private Joseph Hammond is fundraising for frontline workers and vulnerable veterans across Africa.

The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic are acute for Somalia, but the Horn of Africa nation is doing what it can with the resources it has, even as it looks ahead to its first direct elections in a half-century, the top UN official in the country said on Thursday.

How the continent's sense of vulnerability may help it adapt to yet another deadly disease.