Africa

The former head of the Central African Republic (CAR) football federation is set to go on trial for war crimes at the International Criminal Court. Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona, who led a...

Rwanda has deployed what it called a "protection force" to the Central African Republic after its peacekeepers there were attacked by rebels advancing to the capital, Bangui. The Rwandan and...

More than 300 schoolboys have been reunited with their families, a week after they were kidnapped from their school in north-west Nigeria. The boys arrived in the state capital Katsina...

The number of civilians forced from their homes by conflict in northern Mozambique has quadrupled this year - to 420,000 - according to the United Nations. It links the crisis...

Hundreds of schoolboys kidnapped last week from a boarding school in north-western Nigeria have been released, local authorities have told the BBC. A spokesman for the governor of Katsina state...

Nigeria-based Islamist militant group Boko Haram has said it was behind last week's kidnapping of hundreds of schoolboys in the north-western Nigerian state of Katsina. More than 300 pupils are...

A former Liberian rebel commander has gone on trial in Switzerland over alleged atrocities committed during the country's long-running civil war. Alieu Kosiah, 45, is accused of murder, rape, recruiting...

Somali Information Minister Osman Abukar Dubbe has accused Kenya of planning to destabilise Somalia as it prepares for legislative and presidential elections, state-owned Somali National TV has reported. "We respect...

The head of local forces in Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray says they are still fighting near the city of Mekelle, which was seized by government troops at the weekend....

The United Nations has expressed concern about possible war crimes after a threat by the Ethiopian army to start an assault on the northern Tigray region's capital. A deadline set...