A United Nations draft report accusing Rwanda’s army of hunting down and killing tens of thousands of refugees in the Congo in the 1990s has threatened to jeopardize Rwanda’s support for U.N. peacekeeping operations. The report looms as a...

Iraqi officials said at least six people were killed and 35 were wounded in two separate attacks in Baghdad on Wednesday. In the first of the two attacks, three policemen and one civilian were killed when a parked car bomb exploded near a bus station...

At least 32 people were killed when gunmen and a suicide bomber dressed in army uniforms stormed a hotel in Mogadishu today in an attack that triggered an hour-long gun battle in the Somali capital. Six members of parliament who were staying at the...

A suicide car bomber has killed four people in an attack near the Baghdad offices of the Saudi-owned pan-Arab news channel, al-Arabiya.

A severe drought is causing increasing hunger across the Eastern Sahel in west Africa, affecting 10 million people in four countries, aid agencies warned today. In Niger, the worst-affected country, 7.1 million are hungry, with nearly half considered...

A schoolgirl died following a cross country run in which she complained, ‘Oh God, I feel like I’m going to die’. Rianna Wingett was taking part in a PE lesson the day before her 12th birthday when she collapsed. Schoolfriends said her last...