Hong Kong 39;s former home affairs secretary Patrick Ho Chi Ping was jailed for three years Monday for a scheme to bribe African officials to boost a top Chinese energy company that was part of Beijing 39;s global Belt and Road initiative. Ho, 69, who worked for the controversial energy conglomerate CEFC China Energy, was sentenced by a N ...

French art masterpieces have been renamed after their long overlooked black subjects in a ground-breaking new Paris show on the representation of people of colour in art. Manet's Olympia , the scandalous painting of a naked reclining prostitute that marks the birth of modern art , has been rebaptised Laure after the woman who posed as her bl ...

Three top rebel chiefs have been named special military advisers to the Central African Republic government, the presidency said Monday as the volatile country sought to honour a February peace deal. The three will be charged with setting up special joint units under the peace accord reached in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, the eighth since m ...

The Bambao hospital, nestled in a tropical forest on Anjouan island in the Comoros, was meant to bring state-of-the-art medical care to the poor Indian Ocean nation. Just two years later, the hospital is deep in debt and shunned by potential patients who find it too costly. A poisoned chalice , a colossus with feet of clay , a sinkin ...

Police fired teargas and rubber bullets Monday to disperse more than 100 opposition supporters as Comoros awaited the results of elections President Azali Assoumani is tipped to win, AFP correspondents saw. Two people were injured -- a protester and a plainclothes policeman -- when the group began marching towards the capital Moroni 39;s I ...