Civil war

How did more than 600 Cameroonians come to find themselves stranded on a Caribbean island that many of them had never heard of? Journalist Gemma Handy reports from St John's in Antigua. Daniel fights to hold back the tears as he…

Little Haftom is nearly five years old. His name means "wealthy" in the Tigriyna language but he weighs just half what he should. As the doctor pulls up his jumper and tracksuit bottoms to show his spindly arms and legs, his mother…

My name is Morris Matadi and I'm a Liberian former child soldier who participated from the ages of 11 to 20. I can remember that my dad asked me one day at the dinner table who I really wanted to be, and I said I wanted to become an air…

José Eduardo dos Santos, Angola's second president who ruled the mineral-rich state for almost four decades, has died aged 79, the government says. He died in Spain where he was treated after suffering a cardiac arrest. Dos Santos…

Two Ethiopian soldiers have given dramatic accounts of a co-ordinated night-time raid on their camps at the start of the Tigray crisis last month by fighters linked to the now-overthrown regional administration. The Tigray People's…

Betty Bigombe, a former Ugandan politician, a peacemaker and a World Bank official is driven in her quest to talk to Africa's warlords in a bid to get them to engage in peace talks. Her most iconic so far, has been talking to Africa’s most…