Eritrean human rights activists have accused the EU of funding a scheme in Eritrea that uses "forced labour".

Roads are not only relatively empty of cars.

People living in one of Mozambique's largest cities have been warned to expect the "worst-case scenario" as a major cyclone makes landfall.

Italian children have been told not to turn up to school unless they can prove they have been properly vaccinated.

A fire believed to have been started by illegal marijuana farmers is threatening tens of thousands of hectares of bamboo forest in Mount Kenya.

A US federal judge has blocked new Trump administration regulations on birth control from applying across the entire country.

Scientists in the US have engineered tobacco plants that can grow up to 40% larger than normal in field trials.

An estimated 85,000 children under the age of five may have died from acute malnutrition in three years of war in Yemen, a leading charity says.

Romaine lettuce has been linked to an outbreak of E. coli in the US and Canada, health officials say.

The Democratic Republic of Congo has signed a $14bn (£10bn) deal for what is billed as the world's largest hydro-electric project with a consortium of Chinese and Spanish companies.