All news on the topic: Central Africa

The grieving family of a millionaire big-game hunter, trampled to death by five elephants while hunting small forest antelope in central Africa, have described the "chaotic" way they heard of his death.

Abductions of students from schools in northern Nigeria are common and have become a source of concern since 2014 when Islamic extremists kidnapped over 200 schoolgirls in Borno state’s Chibok village

Seaweed is spreading across the Arctic Ocean due to climate change, with the extra sunlight boosting some marine life while others suffer from the additional exposure

The large snake dropped out of the furniture as it was being prepped by Cunninghame Furniture Recycling in Irvine, North Ayrshire, who save unwanted furniture from landfill

It was a tragedy that went down in history when a whole football team in Africa suddenly died mid-game after a blast of lightning struck them on the pitch in October 1998

President Ali Bongo Ondimba called on people to "make noise" to support him while army officers appeared on TV to say they had taken power and as locals celebrated the coup, Western powers decried it

One woman went off the beaten track to have the adventure of a lifetime, seeing gorillas, hippos, turtles and more in the wilds of the West African nation

Priti Patel boasted it would be 'biggest overhaul of our immigration system in decades' - but 12 months later Labour's Yvette Cooper has dismissed it as a 'Tory con'