Africa

John Ray Africa Correspondent

By the time all the dead are counted, it will have grown to a great chorus of grief, Africa Correspondent John Ray reports.

The urgent appeal was made to help an estimated 16 million people who face starvation in East Africa.

The bodies of two UN experts and an interpreter have been found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, two weeks after they disappeared.

Hundreds of people scaled 20ft-high border fences to enter a tiny Spanish enclave from Morocco hoping to reach a better life in Europe.

Giraffes could disappear from the planet if current rates of extinction continue, it has been warned.

Rights groups say hundreds have been killed by security forces since protests flared last year over land rights.

A proposal to sell ivory stockpiles and return profits to communities that sustain elephants has been defeated at a major global conference.

The Great Elephant Census has taken two years to complete, and shows that savannah elephant populations have declined by a third.

Three park rangers were killed by elephant poachers on Saturday after a shootout in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Simon Wood, who died in 2013, is said to have abused almost 40 children during stopovers in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.