Equatorial Guinea government resigns after failing to meet targets

17.06.2026 15:00 The vice-president says the government had barely reached 10% of its targets, without specifying them.

Leader of South Africa's second biggest party wants his predecessor sacked as minister

17.06.2026 15:00 John Steenhuisen is one of South Africa's best-known politicians after leading the DA for seven years.

'We fear for our lives' - deadline for migrants to leave South Africa looms

17.06.2026 08:45 Protesters have set 30 June as the date for all undocumented migrants to leave the country.

Partey misled Canadian officials over previous arrest

17.06.2026 02:45 Thomas Partey will miss Ghana's World Cup opener after an appeal against the decision not to grant him a visa is turned down.

Cape Verde hero 'convinced by team-mates not to retire'

16.06.2026 20:45 A friend of Vozinha said the Cape Verde goalkeeper's starring role in the World Cup game against Spain "couldn't have happened to a nicer person".

Somaliland opens Jerusalem embassy after Israel's recognition of its independence

16.06.2026 20:45 The move comes six months after Israel became the first country to recognise the breakaway East African state.

DR Congo medics mark rare Ebola recovery with song and dance

16.06.2026 14:46 Survivors are bringing hope to health workers struggling to control the outbreak.

Nigerian army frees widow of ex-general who died in captivity

16.06.2026 14:46 Maj Gen Rabe Abubakar and his wife Amina were abducted in north-west Nigeria at the end of last month.

Tunisia sack Lamouchi just one game into World Cup

16.06.2026 14:46 Tunisia sack Sabri Lamouchi one game into their World Cup, with former Morocco and Saudi Arabia manager Herve Renard replacing him.

The 40-year-old keeper who inspired Cape Verde's historic debut

16.06.2026 09:00 Cape Verde stuns Spain with a goalless draw inspired by a 40-year-old goalkeeper who has gone viral on social media.

'Greatest feeling ever': Cape Verdeans tell BBC of joy at holding Spain to draw

16.06.2026 09:00 The streets of the capital, Praia, shook with wild celebrations as the small island nation held Spain to a shock 0-0 draw.

Witnessing joy amid the death: BBC travels to epicentre of Ebola outbreak

16.06.2026 09:00 There are glimpses of happiness in the Democratic Republic of Congo's fight against the virus that has killed more than 170.

The human cost of the war in Sudan, three years on

16.06.2026 03:01 The conflict, which erupted in 2023, has left behind a human toll which is "simply staggering", reports the BBC's Barbara Plett Usher.

Empty seat at World Cup for French sports journalist imprisoned in Algeria

16.06.2026 03:01 A seat is being left empty in the press box at every France game at the World Cup to highlight the case of a French football writer who is in prison in Algeria.

South African jazz legend Abdullah Ibrahim dies at 91

15.06.2026 21:00 Ibrahim helped define a genre of South African jazz music in a career that spanned eight decades.