VIDEO: Desolate ghost towns of S Sudan

The United Nations Assistant Secretary-General (ASG) for Human Rights, Ivan Šimonović, has told the BBC he has strong evidence that both sides in the conflict in South Sudan were involved in atrocities.

After years of violence in north-east Nigeria, military forces from Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger have been taking back towns lost to Boko Haram, the BBC's Tomi Oladipo reports.

The United Nations mission in South Sudan reported widespread looting after a patrol in the strategic market town of Bor, which has changed hands several times in the conflict, officials said Friday.

As Kenya begins the construction of a security fence along its border with Somalia in a bid to prevent attacks by al-Shabab, the BBC has gathered evidence that the group is recruiting within Kenya.

Libyans are voting for a new parliament, however turnout is expected to be low, with just a trickle of voters going to polling stations so far in the capital. Rana Jawad reports from Tripoli.

We had spent 72 hours in Tanga admiring the coastal scenery in which the light and the colours of the natural surroundings seemed almost impossible to comprehend.

>The National Housing Corporation (NHC) plans to construct two satellite towns on the outskirts of Arusha, the Regional Consultative Committee (RCC) meeting was told here on Wednesday. The NHC regional manager for Arusha, Mr James Kisarika, named the sites as Usa River Satellite City to be put up on the southern fringes of the city and Safari Satellite City to be built at Mateves.

Somalia's Islamist al-Shabab militants are recruiting heavily in north-eastern Kenya, according to evidence gathered by the BBC.

The sight on a section of the Atlantic Ocean beachfront off Monrovia, amazed a producer of a television documentary focused on Liberia as it emerged slowly and painfully from the first brutal civil war in the 1980s and 1990s.