Africa

The world's last male northern white rhino has died in Kenya after "age-related complications", researchers have announced.

Officials in Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe will receive specialist training to help carry out forensic investigations of animals slaughtered.

John Ray Africa Correspondent

It has been 15 years since the end of the DRC's civil war, but now the country appears to be slipping back towards the abyss.

"Africa is very important for the United States."

According to witnesses, Trump used the slur during a meeting in the Oval Office about immigration.

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.