Judges from the International Criminal Court have rejected a bid by the prosecution to detain the former head of Cote d'Ivoire, Laurent Ggagbo, and his right-hand man, Charles Blé Goudé, a day after the two were acquitted on charges of crimes against humanity. Cuno Tarfusser, the head judge on a panel of three at the ICC, said exceptional reaso ...

When an explosion and gunfire rang out at an upmarket hotel complex in Nairobi, people hid under desks, cowered in bathrooms or hunkered down in their cars, some of them all through the 20-hour siege. Here are some of the stories from survivors of the attack claimed by the Somali Islamist group Al-Shabaab on an upmarket hotel complex in the West ...

Traditional white-striped bodypainting practiced by indigenous communities mimics zebra stripes to reduce the number of potentially harmful horsefly bites a person receives by up to 10-fold, according to new research published Wednesday. Tribes in Africa, Australia and southeast Asia have practiced bodypainting in cultural ceremonies for generat ...

Sicley Williams was ready to escape what she found an unfriendly climate in the United States and take a leap of faith, leaving her native Chicago for Ghana. She had previously visited the West African nation on holiday and when she returned in 2017 found work practising yoga and offering spa services. The climate of the US was just really n ...