A global conference on wildlife trade wrapped up on Tuesday after adopting a slew of decisions to curb rampant

Brazilians furious at recession and corruption are expected to punish the long dominant Workers' Party in municipal

War crimes judges yesterday sentenced a Malian jihadist to nine years in jail for destroying the fabled shrines of Timbuktu, in a

The embattled leader of jihadist group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, resurfaced in a video posted online yesterday,

Africa's elephant population has suffered its worst drop in 25 years, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said yesterday, blaming the plummeting numbers on poaching.

The wife of the African American man whose death has triggered days of unrest in Charlotte, North Carolina has

A Brazilian Supreme Court judge has authorized opening preliminary investigations into allegations that President

Islamist gunmen launched an overnight attack on a police camp in Kenya's north-east, close to the Somali border, police and militants

Brazil's former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva must stand trial for corruption, a judge ruled Tuesday, after

Dahir Ahmed Adan, the Somali American named as the perpetrator of the weekend stabbing rampage in Minnesota,

A top Somalia general known for fighting the jihadist Shabaab group, was killed yesterday when a suicide bomber

Mainly-Muslim militia fighters in the Central African Republic have killed at least 20 people and wounded several more

South African retired archbishop and anti-apartheid icon Desmond Tutu, 84, was readmitted to hospital yesterday in

Thirty-eight Boko Haram Islamist fighters have been killed during military search operations carried out by Niger and

Luc Adolphe Tiao, the last prime minister of former Burkinabe president Blaise Compaore, has been detained and

Somalia's Islamist militant group al Shabaab attacked a town in a region near Kenya's border, killing at least seven

Soldiers from Niger and Chad have killed 38 Boko Haram fighters during operations that followed attacks by the Nigerian Islamist group on two border towns in southeastern Niger earlier this week, according to Niger's army.

The impeachment trial of Brazil's first woman president, Dilma Rousseff, got underway yesterday with high

Nigeria's military yesterday claimed to have seriously injured Boko Haram's elusive leader Abubakar Shekau and killed

South Sudan's former rebel leader and ex-vice president Riek Machar has escaped to the capital of Democratic Republic of Congo