Dreaming of Europe, Africa’s migrants risk disease, rape and death
Migrants are risking unimaginable horror to escape the poverty of sub-Saharan Africa, travelling through Libya in search of Europe’s promised land.
The United Nations Human Rights office says it has ‘credible information’ that the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces or RSF – which is currently fighting the Sudanese army – is responsible for a mass grave in West Darfur.
Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden left $29m in his will, with instructions that most of this should be used to wage jihad.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir flies out of South Africa before a court decision on whether he should be arrested on war crimes charges.
Sudan’s government has “shamefully” denied the UN access to investigate an alleged mass rape by Sudanese soldiers against hundreds of women, the US says.
Paul Coles made a shock discovery when he arrived back from a trip to the continent – a Sudanese teenager who had clung to the bottom of his motorhome in a desperate attempt to migrate to the UK.
Meriam Ibrahi, who was sentenced to death in Sudan for renouncing Islam, has met Pope Francis at the Vatican. Meriam’s conviction was quashed after Sudan came under intense international pressure.
A Sudanese Christian woman whose death sentence for apostasy was overturned is freed again after being detained on accusations of forging travel documents.
Khat, the stimulant leaf chewed by Yemeni and east African communities, especially Somalis, is now illegal and is classed as a class C drug – but will that stop it being sold illegally in the UK?
A 27-year-old woman who was sentenced to death by a Sudanese court last month for converting from Islam to Christianity has been released from prison, her lawyer says.
Meriam Ibrahim’s lawyer tells Channel 4 News that reports she is to be freed are “absurd” and untrue, as political leaders call on the Sudanese government to lift her death sentence.
Nigeria is seeking the urgent extradition from Sudan of a Boko Haram terror suspect born and educated – and reportedly radicalised – in Britain, Jonathan Miller reports from Abuja.
South Sudanese rebels and a government delegation start face-to-face peace talks, aimed at ending fighting that has left the world’s newest state on the brink of a civil war.
The President of South Sudan will negotiate with his former deputy today, in an attempt to halt the ethnic murders that have taken 1,000 lives in the last two weeks.
South Sudan’s government says its military have recaptured the key town of Bor, days after it was seized by rebels.
Migrants are risking unimaginable horror to escape the poverty of sub-Saharan Africa, travelling through Libya in search of Europe’s promised land.