A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond:From the BBC in Africa this week: ...

Deep in the heart of a lush green forest, an excavator is hard at work, turning over the earth in search of gold. The ...

On the fringes of an African game park, an ambitious project brings together tourists, local communities and white rhinos, ...

"It wasn't Guinea-worm disease. After receiving treatment, he was able to resume his life as a fisherman. I was very proud to have helped him." In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the elimination ...

Korea plans to issue a travel ban for an eastern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo due to intensifying ...

Congolese rebels take a major city, Denmark boosts defense spending, and Trump announces new plans to ...

China has prohibited imports of sheep, goat, poultry and even-toed ungulates from African, Asian and European countries due to outbreaks of livestock diseases such as sheep pox, goat pox and ...

A nurse in Uganda has died of Ebola in the first recorded fatality since the country’s last outbreak of the disease ended in ...

Congo losses expose limit of South Africa's diplomatic ambitions Africacategory· 6:59 AM UTC South Africa's energy regulator on Thursday granted state power utility Eskom an average tariff ...

Science dioramas of yesteryear can highlight the biases of the time. Exhibit experts are reimagining, annotating — and sometimes mothballing — the scenes.

One more death has been recorded in Tanzania's Marburg outbreak, raising the death toll to 10 according to a weekly update ...