Politics

UN agencies warn South Sudan facing major food crisis

Millions of people in war-wracked South Sudan are facing a food shortage as the rainy season approaches, a top UN official warned, denouncing inadequate funding for humanitarian aid efforts. Duration: 01:10

Apr 3, 2014

French president's ex-partner Royal joins new government

Hollande's ex-partner and mother of his four children, Segolene Royal was named environment and energy minister in a spectacular return to mainstream politics for the woman who lost the 2007 presidential election to Nicolas Sarkozy. Duration: 00:39

Apr 3, 2014

Unspoken trauma paralyses Rwanda genocide survivors

The dead have been buried for 20 years but the mental trauma left behind by Rwanda's genocide is still very much alive among the survivors. Duration: 02:27

Apr 3, 2014

Hungary's PM braces for Sunday's election

To some he's the hero of the Hungarian nation, to others he's a borderline dictator; the people of Hungary head to the polls Sunday to decide whether Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban should serve a third term in office. Duration: 02:33

Apr 3, 2014

Guinea struggles to contain Ebola outbreak

Aid organisation Doctors Without Borders said Monday an Ebola outbreak suspected of killing at least 78 people in Guinea was an "unprecedented epidemic" that had spread across the west African nation. Duration: 01:07

Apr 3, 2014

Afghan police secure area after Taliban suicide attack

A Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up at the Afghan interior ministry, killing six police officers just three days before the country's presidential election, which the insurgents have vowed to disrupt. Duration: 00:24

Apr 3, 2014

MH370 relatives reject satellite evidence

Distraught relatives of passengers on the missing MH370 jet continued to pray on Wednesday as some of them rejected evidence that suggests their loved ones died in the southern Indian Ocean. Duration: 00:42

Apr 3, 2014

Italian police thwarts terrorist action from separatist group

Italian police on Wednesday arrested 24 alleged separatists for terrorism after thwarting a plan to take over St Mark's Square in Venice armed with guns and a rudimentary "tank" made from a digger. Duration: 00:44

Apr 3, 2014

Stolen Gauguin found in retired worker's Sicilian home

Italy on Wednesday said it had recovered a painting worth millions of euros by Paul Gauguin, stolen in London in 1970, bought by an Italian factory worker for a pittance and hung in his kitchen for almost 40 years. Duration: 01:11

Apr 3, 2014

Hundreds attend Zalmai Rassoul election rally in Kabul

Hundreds attended an election rally for Zalmai Rassoul in Kabul on Wednesday, as the presidential candidate told supporters "we will implement law equally on everyone and no one including myself will be allowed to breach the law". Duration: 01:02

Apr 3, 2014

Somali forces make gains against Shebab-held towns

Somalia's government is celebrating the capture of a string of towns from Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab rebels despite warnings from the Islamists that they will retaliate. Duration: 00:59

Apr 2, 2014

Kabul's 'Bush bazaar' hopes election will revive business

Kabul shopkeeper Haji Najimullah is furious with the Americans. Not for their long military intervention in Afghanistan, but the fact they are leaving, robbing his market stall of an important supplier. Duration: 00:35

Apr 2, 2014

OSCE observer mission heads to Ukraine's tense east

The Chief monitor of the OSCE mission to Ukraine said that the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe is there "to contribute to the solution." Duration: 01:25

Apr 2, 2014

Crisis talks on CAfrica as mammoth EU-Africa summit opens

African and European leaders hold crisis talks on the escalating violence in the Central African Republic on Wednesday as some 80 nations gather in Brussels for a key summit. Duration: 00:50

Apr 2, 2014

Lebanon army expands operation in restive Tripoli

Lebanese troops moved into a restive Sunni area in the northern city of Tripoli Wednesday, in the second stage of a plan aimed at quelling deadly Syria-linked violence there, a security source said. Duration: 00:33

Apr 2, 2014