Nearly 120,000 people have been displaced by flash floods caused by heavy rains across Chad in the month just ended.…
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A political risk consultancy, Menas Associates, says the way forward on political negotiations in troubled Libya will be partially shaped…
Pathfinder International is leading the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded health service delivery programme in Burkina Faso. It…
Estimated 363,807 persons are currently displaced in parts of Chad’s zone bordering Cameroon, Nigeria and Niger. That is over half…
A political risk consultancy, Menas Associates, says most Malians have been proclaiming the latest coup d’état of Tuesday, August 18…
Once a month, Nolwazi Myeni, receives a message on her mobile phone notifying her that family planning services are available…
More than three million people are currently facing acute food insecurity as Burkina Faso grapples with COVID-19 and conflict. This…
Working with the South Sudan National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) and Population Services International (PSI), Malaria Consortium says it has…
Niger is impacted by increased levels of insecurity and instability linked to violent extremist organisations. Like neighbouring Mali, Burkina Faso and…
Malian soldiers who carried out the coup that led to the resignation of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita have explained their action. Keita…
Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita announced his resignation on live television in the early hours of Wednesday morning following a…
A coup is likely underway in Mali following recent political events. This followed nearly three months of demonstrations calling for…
Livelihoods of Congolese artisanal fishers and shark fishing are currently at risk. Already, the development is attracting concerns from some…
The lives of some 40 million food-insecure Congolese is currently teetering between life and death. Their survival depends on how…
Nearly 25,000 migrants in Ethiopia are currently receiving essential aid from humanitarian agencies. They recently returned to the country due to…
Despite the COVID 19 mobility restrictions, migrants are still compelled to undertake risky journeys, International Organisation for Migration (IOM), has…
Hundreds of thousands of African migrants have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, chiefly by the closure of hundreds of air,…
Somalia’s Ambassador to West Africa and Special Envoy to Iran, Muhammed Hussein Abukar, is among 11 other Somali nationals who…
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is current assisting Morocco to fight the rampaging COVID-19 pandemic with “SALAMA at Work”…
A South Sudanese social worker at a United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)-supported women-friendly space, Poni Rose Modo, says Intimate partner…
In Uganda, Betty Nagadya is making waves with a novel kind of clothing song. When she walks through the trading…
The Chieftainess of the Chewa people in Zambia’s Eastern Province, Kawaza, is seriously challenging harmful social norms in her community.…
Africa is currently taking a three-pronged approach – prevention, early detection, and control – to manage the menace of invasive…
A modelling study published in The Lancet Global Health journal says the health benefits of maintaining routine childhood vaccination programmes in…
Tensions are rising in South Sudan, leaving women and girls vulnerable to violence as they attempt to isolate or escape…
Health workers in many West African countries say it has been challenging to prevent the spread of COVID-19 while providing…
Millions of refugees across Africa are being left without food because of rising food prices and loss of income due…
Participants in a study conducted by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in collaboration with Catholic Relief Services (CSR), supported by…
Ethiopia is currently immersed in a renewed uprising, and it is obvious that issues about the communal violence that rocked…
The dual shocks of the COVID-19 pandemic and low prices of commodities, especially oil are casting a dark shadow on…