Entries by BBC News

Egypt’s Grand Museum opens, displaying Tutankhamun tomb in full for first time

The launch of the billion-dollar site sees fresh calls for the return of antiquities held in museums overseas.

Egypt’s Grand Museum opens, displaying Tutankhamun tomb in full for first time

The launch of the billion-dollar site sees fresh calls for the return of antiquities held in museums overseas.

‘I was accused of spying and beaten’ – a boy’s escape from captured Sudan city

A 12-year-old tells the BBC that in the chaos he lost contact with his family and is now on his own at a camp.

‘I was accused of spying and beaten’ – a boy’s escape from captured Sudan city

A 12-year-old tells the BBC that in the chaos he lost contact with his family and is now on his own at a camp.

More than 60,000 flee Sudanese city after its capture by RSF militia – UN

El-Fasher is under the control of paramilitaries accused of mass executions and crimes against humanity.

South Africa hits back at US refugee plan to favour white Afrikaners

Pretoria rubbishes claims of a white genocide and quotes prominent Afrikaners who dub Trump's plans racist.

Several hundred feared dead in Tanzania crackdown on election protests

A diplomatic source tells the BBC there is credible evidence that at least 500 people have been killed.

Apartheid police assault killed Nobel laureate Luthuli, South Africa court rules

The court sets aside the 1967 inquest that found that the anti-apartheid hero was hit by a goods train.

‘We saw people murdered in front of us’ – Sudan siege survivors speak to the BBC

Harrowing accounts from people who have escaped an RSF assault on the besieged city of el-Fasher.

‘We saw people murdered in front of us’ – Sudan siege survivors speak to the BBC

Harrowing accounts from people who have escaped an RSF assault on the besieged city of el-Fasher.