By AP It’s still spring in western Europe, but the region is preparing for a scorching end of May heatwave. People are being urged to take extra care as high pressure traps them under what’s being described as a ‘heat…
By AP More than a million Muslims are gathering for the hajj pilgrimage, which is taking place in the shadow of the Middle East war, as animosity smoulders across the region despite a fragile ceasefire. Muslim worshippers performed night prayers…
By AFP With Eid-al Adha just days away, customers at a sheep market in Ivory Coast’s capital Abidjan are hoping to buy sheep to sacrifice for the Muslim festival. But supply is significantly down on last year and traders are…
By AFP Ethiopia holds a general election on June 1, with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed all but guaranteed of victory despite multiple armed conflicts and the economic impact of the Middle East war. Who will win? Abiy has been in…
By AFP Nigeria’s president Bola Tinubu will run for re-election in January after clinching his party’s presidential nomination with a landslide victory in the All Progressives Congress primaries. Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu will run for re-election in January, with the…
By AFP Romuald Wadagni took the oath of office of Sunday to become Benin’s new president. The former finance minister of Benin, Romuald Wadagni, officially became the country’s president on Sunday, taking over from his former-boss Patrice Talon. Wadagni, an economist…
Three Red Cross volunteers died in the Democratic Republic of Congo from suspected Ebola likely caught while managing dead bodies, the organisation has said. They are believed to have contracted Ebola on 27 March while working in the eastern region…
“I saw the burial team taking eight of them,” recalls Ebola survivor Patrick Faley. “They put them into a bag and carried them to the burial. I made new friends although they ended up dying. I was the only person…
Back in March, an email landed in my inbox from Irish airline Ryanair asking me if I was ready for my “next Moroccan adventure”. Sprawling along a windswept peninsula where the Sahara meets the Atlantic, the city of Dakhla certainly…
Not even heavy rain can keep shoppers away from Gikomba, a lively Kenyan market that stands as the largest open-air trading hub in East Africa. Sections of the site were waterlogged on the day the BBC visited, yet shoppers, some…
