South Sudanese voters went to the polls during the week beginning January 9, 2011, to decide whether they wanted independence.

A small curbside office suite in Alexandria, Virginia, USA becomes a polling site of the Southern Sudan Referendum Commission, administered...

Photo Essay courtesy of Christian Aid/The Guardian Much of Sudan is in transit as southerners return from Khartoum and other...

An official of Sudan's National Elections Commission inspects a shipment of ballots delivered via helicopter by the United Nations Mission...

More than one million people received a shot against group A meningococcal meningitis in pilot programmes carried out in Burkina...

Delegates from many countries attended this year's United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico.

Madeleine Bunting of The Guardian visits Mali to see the impact of climate change. This dune on the outskirts of...

The United Nations Security Council held a high-level meeting on November 16 to discuss Sudan's upcoming January 2011 referenda on...

Ahead of Tanzania's elections on Sunday October 31, opposition supporters of the Civic United Front (CUF) Union cheered their presidential...

Quality of Governance in Africa: The darker the shading on this map, the better governed the nation, according to the...