DR Congo attack kills Italian Ambassador - a podcast by BBC World Service

Italy's ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Luca Attanasio, was killed, along with an Italian officer and a Congolese driver, in an attack on a UN convoy north of Goma.

Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine tells us why he has decided to drop his court case challenging the results of last month's presidential election

How countries previously hit by Ebola are learning to act quickly as new outbreaks of the deadly virus are declared in Guinea and the DRC

Seven members of the electoral commission in Niger were killed on Sunday as the country went ahead with presidential elections

Why, a year after the announcement of a praised national unity government in South Sudan, the UN is now warning against an escalation of violence in the country.

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