Africa

Circumcision season kicks off in western Kenya as wives compel 'dirty' uncircumcised husbands to take part in ceremony.

Court finds procedural lapses in enacting draconian Anti-Homosexuality Act.

Lumia Cyan update has been released for Nokia Lumia 1320.

Hygienist Nancy Writebol tests positive for tropical virus at same clinic as American doctor Kent Brantly

Liberian man infected by Ebola virus travels to Africa's most populous city of Lagos and dies.

India wants to increase oil imports from South America and Africa.

A suspect's chilling confession of how he killed a 13-year-old boy in his craving for materialism.

Virus outbreak likely to worsen in coming weeks as African nations struggle to deal with crisis.

As instances of human-animal conflict increase the country has decided to issue legal hunting permits to cull its desert elephants.

Women abducted from Borno State flee captors as militants go out to attack Damboa town.

Fokker 50 cargo aircraft headed to Somalia's Mogadishu flies into commercial buildings in Nairobi.

Bull elephant, famous for its long tusks, found dead in Tsavo East National Park.

Forty-five percent of African households are still living in poverty.

UN officials say 4.5m internally displaced increase caused by Syrian civil war.

Squad fled tournament in Uganda and travelled via Romania to the Netherlands to escape Eritrea.

Deal calls for immediate ceasefire and efforts to install transitional government leading to fresh elections in South Sudan.

Chinese leader pledges not to interfere with internal politics on back of massive aid and investment packages

Graphic image of son holding his father's severed head circulating in blogs.

EU sends aid to help prevent disease spreading out of control.

Soka area of Ibadan in Nigeria is turning into 'horror forest' as several decomposed and mutilated corpses are found.

Elephants can recognise whether a human is a friend or enemy from their voice.

Arab criminals are kidnapping African migrants and demanding relatives in Europe pay ransoms.

Researchers look at how a failed Saharan Atlantic Ocean rift zone shaped the planet.

Morrison Adenkor and Angelina Adet were handed the maximum 10-year prison sentence for slicing son's fingers.

World Bank delays loan to Uganda after President Museveni passes anti-gay bill.

Family Bank Director Peter Njuguna Mukuria shot in head and neck outside Kenya school in Nairobi

Researchers discover deadly malaria Plasmodium vivax came from Africa 300,000 years ago.

Museveni signs law which bans miniskirts and pornography.

Court finds the men guilty of committing "an improper or unnatural act with a person of the same sex."

Fresh hope for treatment of Necator americanus, which causes infections in 700 million people.