African countries are meeting in Ethiopia to discuss climate change.

The BRICS Summit 2016 has adopted the Goa Declaration which unanimously hit out at the growing threat of terrorism, among other issues. The summit laid down a comprehensive vision for the countries cooperation in combating terrorism, including cross border terrorism, and its supporters.

A group of Nigerian families were finally reunited with 21 girls released last week by Boko Haram, the Islamic militant movement. The abduction of nearly 300 female students from a government secondary school in the remote town of Chibok, in the north-east Nigeria in April 2014 prompted a global outcry.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has visited Haiti to see the devastation left by Hurricane Matthew. Storm victims continue to express frustration at delays in aid more than a week-and-a-half since the category 4 storm hit.

African leaders on Saturday signed a landmark charter that aims to preserve the continent's maritime security and safety.

Haiti's long-awaited presidential and parliamentary elections are to take place on the 20th of next month.

The International Criminal Court says it is looking forward to continue working with Burundi. Even though lawmakers have signaled they want to withdraw from ICC.

Boko Haram militants handed over 21 Chibok schoolgirls to Nigerian authorities after a series of negotiations. This is the first mass release of the more than 200 girls kidnapped from their school two years ago.

At least 14 people are dead, and another 26 injured after an attack at a Shia shrine in the west of Kabul on Tuesday. The Afghan Ministry of Interior spokesman Sediq Sediqqi confirmed that the attack was carried out by one person using an automatic rifle and grenade, not the previously suspected three.

Over 200 residents in storm-hit Haiti have contracted cholera prompting the World Health Organisation to send one million vaccine doses to the island.