War and hunger threaten to “consume” Sudan where hundreds of thousands of malnourished children are at risk of dying, as fighting between rival generals rages on, the United Nations warned yesterday.

BRICS leaders yesterday announced the “historic” admission of six new countries from next year as the club of large and populous emerging economies seeks to reshape the global order.

Global warming could cost Australia’s economy hundreds of billions of dollars in the coming decades if workplaces cannot adapt to soaring temperatures, a government report said yesterday.

More than four million people have been driven from their homes in Ethiopia, mainly by conflict or drought, according to new UN figures.

Leaders of the BRICS bloc of leading developing countries have agreed mechanisms for considering new members, South Africa said yesterday, paving the way for dozens of interested nations to join the group which has pledged to champion the “Global South”.

Sudanese paramilitaries fought the regular army in Khartoum yesterday as they targeted a key military base in the south of the capital for the fourth consecutive day, witnesses said.

BRICS leaders met yesterday to plot the future course of the bloc of developing nations but divisions re-emerged ahead of a critical debate over a potential expansion of the group intended to boost its global clout.

Forest fires in Canada's western province of British Columbia intensified on Saturday, with the number of people under evacuation orders doubling from a day earlier, as authorities warned of difficult days ahead

A strong earthquake followed by dozens of aftershocks rattled central Colombia and the capital Bogota on Thursday, setting off sirens and sparking brief panic, including in one woman who died after jumping from a building, authorities said.

Tripoli’s worst armed clashes in a year have killed 55 people and wounded 146, Libyan media reported yesterday, as a truce took hold.

Six Niger soldiers and 10 "terrorists" were killed on Sunday during fighting in the west of the country, authorities said

Seven people died after a mosque filled with worshippers caved in on Friday in Nigeria's northern city of Zaria, in Kaduna state, with several others injured

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva urged wealthy nations Wednesday to fulfill their unkept promises to fund developing countries’ fight against climate change, at a summit on saving the world’s tropical forests.

West African heads of state discussed their response to last month’s military takeover in Niger at closed-door talks in Nigeria yesterday after the junta defied their earlier threat to use force to restore democracy.

Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni appointed Hun Manet as the country's new leader on Monday, succeeding his father premier Hun Sen who is stepping down after nearly four decades of hardline rule

The crisis in Sudan should serve “as a wake-up call” for Juba, the UN envoy to South Sudan said yesterday, urging the government to lay the groundwork for credible elections next year.

On their tenth day at sea, the four Nigerian stowaways crossing the Atlantic in a tiny space above the rudder of a cargo ship ran out of food and drink.

Tunisian President Kais Saied sacked Prime Minister Najla Bouden without explanation Tuesday night and replaced her with former central bank executive Ahmed Hachani, whom he tasked with overcoming the “colossal challenges” facing the cash-strapped North African country.

African leaders on Sunday gave the junta in Niger one week to cede power or face the possible use of force, and slapped financial sanctions on the putschists, after the latest coup in the jihadist-plagued Sahel region raised alarm on the continent and in the West

Eight people were killed and 11 injured in a series of silo explosions at the site of an agricultural cooperative in Brazil's southern Parana state, authorities said Thursday