The statistics for malnutrition and hunger in Yemen are terrifying. Almost a quarter of the Yemeni population needs urgent food assistance right now, according to the World Food Program.

Increasing connectivity on the continent may make it easier for African storytellers to share their own perspectives with the rest of the online world.

Anger over king's safari has as much to do with country's economic travails as his taste for shooting big game.

The love affair between the West and Syria's Asma al-Assad is now turning into a nasty divorce.

Al Jazeera brings you up-to-the-minute reporting from France for the 2012 presidential elections. Ten candidates will be competing in the first round of voting on April 22, and the two finalists will face off in the second round on May 6.