The security court in Comoros has handed down life sentences with hard labour to four senior opposition figures and lengthy jail terms to several others for plotting against the state. The two-day trial and the sentences, delivered late on Saturday, were condemned by the opposition as an insult to democracy . Former vice-president Djaffar S ...

Iraqis on Sunday laid the cornerstone in rebuilding Mosul's Al-Nuri mosque and leaning minaret, national emblems destroyed last year in the ferocious battle against the Islamic State group. The famed 12th century mosque and minaret, dubbed Al-Hadba or the hunchback, hosted Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's only public appearance as IS chief, when he decl ...

Jacques wanted to start working when he was 10. His father refused so he left his home in Tema, Ghana, to live in nearby Benin, like many young children in search of a better life. I got on a bus to Cotonou sticking to a lady as if I were her son, says the relaxed young man, as if travelling several hundred kilometres alone at such a young age ...