Africa

All hell broke loose as South African President Jacob Zuma addressed parliament. Lawmakers denounced him as a corrupt scoundrel and brawled with guards, while outside troops kept the public at bay.

A Kenyan court has ruled the government must not close the world's largest refugee camp, which houses some 300,000 people, many of them from Somalia.

Once a staple in India, millets have fallen out of fashion in recent years. Now, faced with water shortages, one Indian state is re-introducing these drought tolerant cereals to people's diets.

The Liberian owner of Shark's Ice Cream thinks Nice Cream, owned by a Lebanese businessman, should be shut down. What's her argument?

The government calls Dadaab a security threat. The judge says: "No single arrest or conviction has been cited nor has it been established why a blanket condemnation should be applied to all refugees."

For the first time since President Trump's travel ban went into place, Somali refugees are leaving Kenya for the United States. A court has put the ban on hold.

Somalia's parliament has chosen a new president, but the bribery-tainted process underscores why the country's failed government has been weak to resist Islamist militants.

The vote took place under tight security and is a big step in a country that hasn't had a functioning central government for the past 26 years.

Somali members of parliament are choosing a new president today, under tight security in the capital Mogadishu.