A growing number of Libyan refugees have been arriving in Tunisia from Libya's Western Mountains regions, the UN refugee agency reports. Read more »
For Africa to deliver inclusive, broad-based participatory growth, the continent has to become more competitive and more productive, says Obiageli Ezekwesili, the World Bank's vice ... Read more »
Representatives of the world's poorest nations are preparing to assemble a new "programme of action" to reduce grinding poverty. Read more »
Loud explosions rocked the Libyan capital Tripoli on Thursday close to leader Muammar al-Gaddafi's residence in the Bab al-Aziziya neighbourhood. Nato warplanes were heard swooping ... Read more »
Hospitals in Benghazi are stretching its already limited resources to treat the large number of people wounded in the country's civil war. Read more »
The United Nations has encouraged Alassane Ouattara to form a broad-based government now that he is assuming his responsibilities as head of state. Read more »
The 2010 Human Rights Report by the U.S. State Department notes some efforts in fighting corruption in government but says graft remains widespread. Read more »
President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has accused the United Nations of dividing the country into factions. Read more »
Somalia's president and prime minister have ordered the arrest of the speaker of parliament following his attendance at a United Nations consultative meeting in the Kenyan capital, ... Read more »
The main reasons children join the armed forces are poverty and a lack of educational opportunities. Read more »
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