2023

Captain Omar Colley cannot celebrate The Gambia’s qualification for the Africa Cup of Nations after experiencing the trauma of Friday’s earthquake in Morocco.

Brazil’s Supreme Court announced a 17-year jail term Thursday for the first defendant tried and convicted over the storming of the seats of power by… Read More »Brazil court sentences pro-Bolsonaro rioter to 17 years in jail for storming Senate

A Romanian town on the Ukrainian border has begun installing air-raid shelters after fragments of a drone thought to be of a kind used by… Read More »Romanian town builds air-raid shelters as drones cross border from Ukraine

As more women in Kenya enter politics, online harassment and threats are increasingly used to intimidate and silence them.

The Egyptian village of al-Sharif has lost at least 70 young men in the Libyan floods.

Yemen’s Iran-backed Huthi rebels are to fly to Riyadh for the first publicly announced visit since a Saudi-led military coalition opened hostilities in 2015, government… Read More »Yemen’s Huthi rebels to visit Saudi Arabia, raising hopes of breakthrough in conflict

Residents of Derna tell the BBC how they got out alive as floodwaters smashed through the city.

The European Central Bank hiked a key interest rate to a record high Thursday as it battles soaring inflation, defying calls for a pause to… Read More »Europe’s central bank hikes key interest rate to record high as recession threat grows

Pictures reveal washed-away streets and thousands of destroyed buildings in the city of Derna.

Power generation in Nigeria, a major oil and gas producer, fell to zero megawatts early on Thursday.