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For the first time, the world is seeing two simultaneous outbreaks of the Marburg virus – one in Equatorial Guinea, the other in Tanzania. The Marburg virus is just as deadly as Ebola, to which it is closely related, but it has been extremely rare unt…
Police in Tunisia’s capital, Tunis, have forcefully removed a group homeless sub-Saharan Africans had been camping outside of the UN buildings of the International Organisation for Migration (OIM) and the UN Refugee Agency (HCR) for several weeks.
Information minister says ‘no basis’ to form interim government, amid claims of February elections being fixedThe Nigerian president-elect, Bola Tinubu, will take office on schedule on 29 May despite court challenges to the election result, the country…
Several opposition activists were arrested and convicted at the end of February, once again sparking a debate on free speech and freedom of assembly in the country. A few months ahead of municipal and regional elections this autumn, opposition groups …
The country’s second-biggest state has been riven by mass street protests, armed clashes between local police and the federal military as well as the fatal shooting of two aid workersGun battles and mass protests have engulfed parts of Amhara, Ethiopia…
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed for “massive international support” for Somalia on Tuesday during his visit to the East African country, which is facing the worst drought in decades.
The United Nations has sent an overland convoy to resupply its peacekeeping mission in separatist-controlled Western Sahara for the first time since 2020. The UN says its presence in the field is key to finding a way to resolve the disagreement over w…
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has arrived in Mogadishu at the start of a brief visit to Somalia, which has been afflicted by protracted armed conflict, climate disasters and famine.
Communist party leaders in South Africa on Monday paid tribute to their former general secretary Chris Hani who was murdered on 10 April 1993 in Johannesburg by a Polish-born rightwing extremist.
Pools and well-watered gardens cause at least as damaging as climate emergency or population growthThe swimming pools, well-watered gardens and clean cars of the rich are driving water crises in cities at least as much as the climate emergency or popul…