Africa is poor, but we can try to help its people. It's a simple statement, repeated through a thousand images, newspaper stories and charity appeals each year, so that it takes on the weight of truth. When we read it, we reinforce assumptions and stories about Africa that we've heard throughout our lives. We reconfirm our image of Africa.

The lions in the Kruger National Park in South Africa left the head and only a few remains.

The Islamist militant group Boko Haram has released 13 people who were kidnapped in north-eastern Nigeria last year, the government says. They include 10 women seized during an attack on a police convoy and three lecturers from Maiduguri taken during an oil exploration trip. President Muhammadu Buhari's office said their release was facilitated by the Red Cross.

Dealmakers from Lagos to Luanda continue to descend but economic shifts and xenophobia causes exodus of African migrants

A storm knocked electricity out, preventing lifts from bringing nightshift workers to the surface.

France will invest a total of 2 billion euros in renewable energy in Africa in 2016-20, a 50% increase in comparison with the last five years. French President François Hollande made the announcement alongside UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the Défi climatique, solutions africaines (Climate Challenge, African Solutions) summit on Tuesday at the COP 21 climate change conference in Paris. Programmes will encourage the use of solar energy, wind power, hydroelectricity or geothermal energy, depending on the potential of each country.

A year ago, no one in Mayilattumpara could sleep soundly at night. Residents of the village in the foothills of Thrissur district, in southwest India's Kerala state, feared invasions by wild elephants. The animals, reacting to the loss of their forest habitat and a scarcity of food, frequently invaded the farmland around the village, trampling on plants and crops and destroying incomes.

It's quite a time for weird weather, and it doesn't get much weirder than snow falling in one of the hottest places in the world.

YEMEN is on the brink of famine, say aid agencies, which often blame the civil war, Saudi Arabia’s blockade of northern seaports and its bombing of vital infrastructure. The government’s refusal to pay salaries to employees in rebel-held areas and the depreciation of Yemen’s riyal mean many cannot afford the food that is available. But one of the biggest causes of hunger often goes unmentioned: a leafy plant called qat.

A white Zimbabwean farmer evicted by the government of Robert Mugabe has returned to a hero's welcome as the first to get his land back under the new president, in a sign of reform on an issue that had hastened the country's international isolation. With a military escort, Robert Smart made his way into Lesbury farm about 124 miles east of the capital, Harare, on Thursday to cheers and song by dozens of workers and community members.

He will surely be a less awful steward of the economy. But he is hardly a democrat

A video of men appearing to be sold at auction in Libya has shocked the world

Left incontinent after rape or a lack of medical care during pregnancy, thousands of African women are stigmatized and shunned each year. In some places, though, the situation is improving. A report from Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. By Andrea Jeska.

Unilever, the maker of Dove soap and Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, is acquiring Sundial Brands to expand its offering of hair- and skin-care products aimed at black women.

The U.S. military began eyeing Agadez as a drone hub almost as soon as it persuaded Niger's government to permit it to fly drones from Niamey in 2013. A year later, the government approved construction of the second base. By Sudarsan Raghavan, Craig Whitlock.

What Robert Mugabe’s long and eventful life can teach us. By Elsie Eyakuze.

The end of Robert Mugabe's 37-year rule sparks wild celebrations in the streets.

Robert Mugabe made the wrong choice that cost him the presidency. But this could turn for the better for Zimbabwe. By Alex Magaisa.

President Robert G. Mugabe was in custody, military officials said, adding that they would be “targeting criminals around him” as “the situation in our country has moved to another level.”

An armed group in Libya has shut down a comic book convention in the capital Tripoli because it breached the country's "morals and modesty". Special Deterrent Forces (SDF) said they had arrested organisers of the Comic Con convention. It said on its Facebook page that photos published on social media from the convention caused "a widespread public outpouring of criticism".