Despite a year of challenges and conflict, I am optimistic that the youth will lead the way to a better future for both of the Sudans.
This has been a rapidly changing year of independence for South Sudan and the people who have been trying to rebuild the nation after more than 50 years of conflict. There is great hope, commitment and energy among its population but there are many challenges ahead.
The UN mission in Afghanistan says 2011 was the deadliest year for civilians in the past decade, with 3,021 deaths. That's a 25% increase in two years. These are the figures that are most telling about the human security crisis in Afghanistan.
Counting for around 25% of Syria's population, most minorities do not want the minority Assad regime to fall.
BBC's Newsnight is a fiery place for political debate but never in its history has anything as wild or bizarre happened as a Member of Parliament draw...
The citizens of Libya are voting this weekend in the country's first free elections in half a century, following the fall of Muammar Gaddafi last year...
Here in Mali, families are trapped in a perfect storm - the consequences of climate change and political regime change. Drought has led to a dreadful harvest and rocketing prices, whilst the departure of Gaddafi has led to migrating mercenaries, laden with arms.
Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad has suffered the first defection of a close ally since the regime’s brutal crackdown of the rebels began more than 16 m...
The released report into the crash of Air France's Flight 447, which plunged into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009, will hopefully take the mystery a step c...
Only last year there were some internationally newsworthy riots in Xintang, my neighbouring town, sparked by the beating up of a pregnant woman selling fruit on the street. She was from the Sichuan province and the whole of the local Sichuanese population rose in anger.
A gigantic crocodile captured by citizens of the Philippines has been officially declared the largest in captivity by the Guinness World Records. T...
William Hague has described his "deep frustration" over the ongoing bloodshed in Syria. The Foreign Secretary said sanctions against Syrian preside...
William Hague has warned the UN that it risked causing a "catastrophe" if a deal is not struck on how best to deal with the on-going crisis in Syria d...
Yohan Blake stunned athletics on Friday night, beating the world's fastest man, Usain Bolt, at the Jamaican Olympic trials. Blake, who won the Worl...
Germany has been left reeling after it was revealed half of its schoolchildren do not realise Hitler was a dictator, while a third believe he protecte...
The air is acrid and the flames are scorching the grass around this huge bonfire. I am in Gabon, central Africa, watching tonnes of elephant ivory go up in smoke. There are 1,293 elephant tusks and a huge amount of confiscated ivory that has been carved into a myriad of products fuelling the fire.
Moviemakers are aiming to dramatise the life of embattled WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange - in a story told through online dating encounters. Dire...
A mother bear has been caught on camera rescuing one of her cubs after it became trapped in a California resident's garage. Captured near Lake Taho...
The Costa Concordia ship tragedy earlier this year caused "a pause" in UK cruise holiday bookings, it was revealed on Tuesday. However, numbers hav...
A shootout in the airport of the Mexican capital claimed the lives of two police officers on Monday. Speaking to Milenio Television, a spokesman fo...
The newly-elected president of Egypt, Mohammed Morsi, has been quoted by the Iranian semi-state run news agency Fars as wanting to strengthen relation...
Families of those killed by Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik staged a walk out of the courtroom as he began his final remarks on the last day of h...
Aung San Suu Kyi appealed to Britain "as friend and an equal" to support the people of Burma in their drive for democracy, as she spoke before both Ho...
Prosecutors in the trial of mass murderer Anders Breivik argued that he should be committed to a mental institution on Thursday. Breivik, who admit...
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spent a second night at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London amid reports that a decision on his request for political as...
