Last year Ifeanyi Ugokwe was arrested and locked up for weeks. His crime: he tried to take his own life.

Religion is a big part of people's lives, especially those in Nigeria.

Australia's largest city Sydney will put on its biggest-ever fireworks display to welcome the New Year and kick off a wave of celebrations for billions around the world. A record amount of pyrotechnics as well as new fireworks effects and colours will light up the harbour city's skyline for 12 minutes and dazzle the more than 1.5 million spectat ...

Dylema leads us through key events on the continent this year in a specially commissioned poem.

There is a video of a man who was seen walking with his head after he took some ‘hard drugs’.

A selection of the best photos from across and about Africa this year.

Afro-Argentines often feel like they’ve been written out of history and are mistaken for foreigners in their own country.