Africa

Uganda’s parliament is set to debate a new anti-gay bill next week, as the country’s president called for a “medical opinion” on the deviancy of homosexuals. The bill, besides criminalizing...

Rescuers were unearthing more bodies as the chances of finding survivors faded after the cyclone followed a highly unusual course by returning to lash southern Africa‘s mainland a second time....

Khaled Mahjoub, head of a media unit for the Libyan National Army, the main eastern military force, said in a statement that the 10 missing barrels had been recovered, though a...

After four days of destructive wind and rain, local communities and relief workers are now confronting the aftermath of Cyclone Freddy which has killed more than 250 people and displaced...

Hurling petrol bombs, they set fire to beer crates stacked inside the MOCAF brewery’s fortified storage yard. But this was not some random assault by firebugs. Footage from security cameras,...

The finding is the result of an inspection originally planned for last year that “had to be postponed because of the security situation in the region” and was finally carried out on Tuesday,...

A strange shark with a remarkably large tail was found washed up on a beach in South Africa in a “very rare” sighting. Wildlife photographers Alex and Juanita Aitkenhead stumbled...

The devastating Tropical Cyclone Freddy which has ripped through southern Africa in a rare second landfall has killed at least 216 people in Malawi and Mozambique since Saturday night, with...

An unrelenting Cyclone Freddy that is currently battering southern Africa has killed at least 44 people in Malawi and Mozambique since it struck the continent for a second time on...

In June 2014, the art dealer Lance Entwistle paid over €500,000 ($530,000; £450,000) for a Benin Bronze leopard at a Christie’s auction in Paris. As one of Europe’s leading dealers...