Rayno Nel is the first African to win the prestigious title of World's Strongest Man. Their neighbours, who raise livestock, told the family to get rid of the wild animal. Thousands of mourners fill ...

Responsible for both the BBC’s editorial output and operational matters across the continent, Juliet Njeri will be tasked ...

Passengers were forced to jump from carriages in a train crash that killed 15 people in eastern Ethiopia, a local official ...

Ethiopia has written to the UN, accusing Eritrea of "funding, mobilizing and directing armed groups" on its soil.

A day after the joyous celebration of a religious festival, mass funerals were held in the small Ethiopian town of Arerti for the 36 people killed when scaffolding inside an Orthodox Christian church ...

Ash from the volcano has polluted water in Ethiopian border villages ... Save the Children told the BBC the authorities had sent a team to conduct a detailed assessment of the situation. An initial ...

A Kenyan family has told the BBC how a cheetah cub they adopted after finding it lying next to its dead mother became almost ...

After outfoxing Egypt on the diplomatic stage for more than a decade, Ethiopia is set to officially inaugurate one of the world's biggest dams on a tributary of the River Nile, burying a colonial-era ...

Juliet Njeri becomes BBC’s new Regional Director for Africa, leading eleven language services and English output across the ...