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...

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

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

More than half of Liberia's schools were ruined during the country's civil war.

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

Ahead of the August 27 promulgation of Kenya's new constitution, Jack Kulundu makes preparations at Nairobi's Uhuru Park...