Ebola outbreak outpacing containment efforts in DR Congo, UN chief warns

More than 5,700 people have been infected and 2,700 killed in the DRC’s largest Ebola outbreak, with insecurity and funding shortages hampering efforts to contain the disease.

Nigeria football chief resigns amid corruption probe and World Cup setback

Ibrahim Musa Gusau has stepped down as pressure mounts on the Nigeria Football Federation over alleged financial mismanagement and the country's declining fortunes on the international stage.

Namibia’s liberation heroes are home at last, but is it the home they sacrificed for?

Decades after their deaths in exile and imprisonment, the return of more than 80 ancestral remains is prompting Namibia to confront its colonial past, reckon with its history and ask whether it has become the nation its freedom fighters envisioned.