Africa

South African collective Batuk aims to use house music to promote pan-African unity, reports Mayeni Jones.

A selection of the best photos from across Africa this week.

Why Uganda has been ranked as the world's most entrepreneurial country.

What is believed to be the world's first regular commercial drone delivery service is launching in Rwanda.

Holidaymaker Brett Archibald recalls how he survived 28 hours in the Indian Ocean after falling overboard from a boat.

The Security Council will dispatch a senior United Nations envoy to consult with officials in Burundi to “find a way forward on all issues related to peace and security and UN activities in the country,” after the Government earlier rejected a Council resolution on establishing a police officers’ component there and amid reports that it will withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC).

The United Nations refugee agency today condemned attacks on civilians in the Central African Republic (CAR), where clashes between rival groups have forced thousands of people to flee their homes and disrupted vital humanitarian aid operations.

Amid rising religious fundamentalism in West Africa, the BBC's Lamine Konkobo looks at how one country has kept intolerance at bay.

Meet the Ugandan mum who dropped out of school in her teens, married a 71-year-old and is now back at school in her 30s, studying in the same class as her daughter.

Chad’s economy is losing 575.8 billion CFA francs ($1.2 billion) per year, or 9.5 per cent of its gross domestic product (GDP), to the effects of childhood undernutrition and resultant increased healthcare costs, additional burdens on the education system and lower productivity by the workforce, a new United Nations-backed study has revealed.

The teenage activist who fights against the Malawi custom of sending girls to camps to learn how to please a man sexually.

With a growing appetite for chicken in Africa, the BBC's Kim Chakanetsa investigates why the continent does not produce enough birds to feed itself.

The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) said today that it is &#8220extremely concerned&#8221 over increased reports of violence and armed conflict in various parts of the country in the last few weeks, including heavy artillery and gunfire exchanges between Government and opposition forces in Leer town.

Welcoming the start of an inclusive dialogue among political leaders, civil society and religious communities of Guinea-Bissau today, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon encouraged all the parties to engage in constructive discussions and “seize this opportunity for a favourable outcome” in the interest of the country’s people.”

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Maina Kiai, warned today about growing restrictions on civil society in Egypt, with human rights defenders and organizations in particular being targeted.

More than 41 million children are expected to get vaccinations against polio as part of a major new health campaign by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in the Lake Chad basin, aimed at the recent outbreak of polio in north-east Nigeria.

Warning of an extremely fragile political situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where “actors on all sides appear more and more willing to resort to violence to achieve their ends,” the top United Nations official in the country called today on the Security Council to urge the parties to return to dialogue, guarantee the right to peaceful opposition and to end impunity for violence.

On a day promoting the rights of the 1.1 billion girls around the world, #womenaretrash is trending in South Africa on International Day of the Girl Child.

New Cardiff City boss Neil Warnock makes ex-Leeds United defender Sol Bamba his latest signing in the Championship.

Ethiopian troops withdraw from a key military base in central Somalia, opening the way for militant Islamists to capture territory, witnesses say.