International News - An African Perspective
From The BBC
Why ice costs more than bread in Mali People are grappling with power cuts as well as extreme heat blamed on human-induced climate change.
Poland denies 'pushback' of pregnant Eritrean woman Activists say the woman gave birth alone in a forested area at the border with Belarus.
Has South Africa's 'get-out-of-jail' vote lived up to the hype? Thirty years after Nelson Mandela's election and apartheid's end, South Africans reflect on democracy.
Power restored to Sierra Leone as minister quits Most of the electricity in the capital is supplied by a Turkish ship floating off the country’s coast.
Burkina Faso suspends BBC over HRW massacre report BBC websites and radio are blocked for two weeks over a Human Rights Watch report on alleged mass killings.
Mbeki vows to rid South Africa's ANC of 'rotten apples' South Africa's former president hits out at corruption within the governing party.
Did UK minister confuse Rwanda and Congo? The policing minister appeared to ask an audience member if Rwanda and Congo were different countries.
Two East Africans charged in UK migrant deaths investigation Five migrants, including a child, were killed in a crush on board a boat crossing the Channel.
Ballet dancers and yawning lions: Africa's top shots A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent and beyond.
Zuma scores court hat-trick over South Africa election How the country's former president is thwarting attempts to bar him from contesting the polls.
Hope Hostel in Rwanda says it's ready for first migrants from UK Rwanda is gearing up to welcome deported asylum seekers now the landmark UK bill has passed.
The London landmark getting a Ghanaian makeover Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama gives a well-loved London landmark a bold pink makeover.
Hundreds of thousands grapple with East Africa floods East Africa is being pounded by unusually heavy rains linked to a combination of global weather events.
Sudan War: 'Tell me how to make it stop' Slam poet Emi Mahmoud wants the world not to forget Sudan, one year into its civil war.
Watch: Bus passengers rescued from flood waters The bus was travelling to Nairobi when it was swept off the road.
Watch: Moment Russ Cook finishes length of Africa run Russ Cook, nicknamed "Hardest Geezer", has finished his challenge of running the length of Africa.
'My first time home 30 years after I fled a genocide' The BBC's Victoria Uwonkunda speaks to survivors of the Rwanda genocide violence 30 years after she fled.