Burkina Faso's military rulers have disbanded the country's electoral commission calling it a waste of money. The government says the interior ministry will handle elections in the future. Will this ...

Ethiopia says it has completed building a mega-dam on the Blue Nile that has long been a source of tension with Egypt and ...

The US Department of State says nearly all non-immigrant and non-diplomatic visas issued to citizens of the four countries ...

An investigation by medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) into the "execution" of three of its workers during a ...

Cameroon's Paul Biya has the distinction of being 'the world's oldest sitting president' and yet at age 92, he is seeking to run for an eighth term, that will see him serve until he is almost 100 ...

Nigeria cannot accept Venezuelans because "we already have over 230 million people," says the foreign minister.

While Brafa's work may have created less of a splash than Live Aid, Leiffer still looks back fondly on what they achieved. "They didn't invite us so we did our own thing," he says. "We made ourselves ...

Michael Buerk, a journalist who reported on the Ethiopian famine in 1984, has said his initial reaction to the Live Aid ...

Veteran journalist Michael Buerk, who reported on the Ethiopian famine in 1984, revealed his initial reaction to the Live Aid ...

Ethiopian government forces "executed" three employees of medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) while they were on a humanitarian mission in Ethiopia's war-hit northern Tigray region four ...

Michael Buerk, a British journalist who reported on the Ethiopian famine in 1984, has said his initial reaction to the Live ...

BBC 2 and iPlayer. One of my strongest memories of watching Live Aid as a child in 1985 wasn’t one of the performances itself ...