This is a grim epilogue to Africa's joyful first World Cup. As a beaming Nelson Mandela was hailed by a Soccer City crowd ahead of Spain's victory,...

Like many children in northern Uganda, Omony has witnessed boys and girls committing terrible crimes. But he can talk about his experiences in a...

Western aid agencies "brushed aside'' the work of local community groups in a rush to spend the record-breaking donations raised after the December...

It must count as one of Britain's trickier public relations jobs. Europe's biggest Muslim cultural event opens in London this week and it will...

It is late afternoon, and the crew and cast of a film called American Dream are on location in an office block in suburban Lagos, Nigeria....

Kenya's attorney general recently signalled his willingness to tackle the country's biggest corruption scandal by charging five men, including the...

Clasping a bouquet of roses, Paul Nyaga smiled. "Yes,’’ he said, "there is someone I want to give flowers to on Valentine’s...

Mary has spent the day gathering sheaves of grass to feed the cattle, weeding the vegetable patch and helping her mother cook dinner over a...

Water used to flow through the taps in Tabata, a sprawling suburb of whitewashed bungalows in Tanzania's biggest city, Dar es Salaam.

On a shallow slope between two hills of orange rock and sand, a man's body lies curled in a foetal position. His hands are thrown up as if to...