Scientists in Colombia have discovered a new species of scorpion, Tityus achilles, which can spray venom to defend itself ...

Disney movies have a way of making us all long for a fictional, enchanted kingdom. The settings are always so magical an ...

She plays 13-year-old Nawi, the eponymous heroine of the coming-of-age film set in Turkana county, a rural area which borders Uganda and where the UN says one in four girls are married before they are ...

Forecasts suggest that by 2100, a majority of the world’s babies will be African, leading to predictions of an African ...

A rebel alliance claimed the capture of the biggest city in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s mineral-rich eastern region ...

A Rwanda-backed militia seized the pivotal Congolese city of Goma this week, threatening a new humanitarian crisis after ...

The United Nations, African Union and East African Community condemned the capture of the city, putting Rwanda in the ...

Rwanda-backed rebels claim they have captured eastern Congo’s largest city, Goma, as the United Nations describe a “mass ...

Residents in eastern Congo’s largest city, Goma, woke up on Monday morning uncertain about who is in control of the city, which Rwanda-backed rebels claimed to have captured ...

Some 70 people were killed in an attack on the only functional hospital in the besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan ...