The Chieftainess of the Chewa people in Zambia’s Eastern Province, Kawaza, is seriously challenging harmful social norms in her community.…
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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…
A 26-year-old Ethiopian migrant, Ahmed, spent 20 days travelling from Ethiopia to Djibouti on foot, bound for the coastal town…
In West Africa where many cocoa farmers are still earning less than $1.50 a day, Fairtrade International says two million…
Tens of thousands of people in South Sudan are currently at risk of contracting the rampaging COVID-19. In a seeming…
The advent of COVID-19 pandemic has added another dimension to the worrisome issue of undernourishment in Africa. In 2018, over…
Thousands of migrant workers in Kenya have lost their jobs and source of income due to the effect of the…
For victims of atrocities in Darfur and their families, Human Rights Watch says the surrender of Ali Kosheib, to the…
South Sudan is reducing its carbon footprint following a successful installation of a hybrid solar power plant in Malakal. Malakal…
Climate change is seriously threatening the agricultural sector of West Africa. It is forcing many to migrate in the search…
A molecular banana breeder with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in Uganda, Brigitte Uwimana, says the use of…
The reluctance of countries to provide save harbour from Libya is signalling a need for a change in approach to…
Weeks of torrential rain have hit Burundi affecting 45,000 people and sweeping away thousands of homes and businesses, leaving 18,000…
A strategic and political risk consultancy, Menas Associates, says Libya, the war-torn North African country is locked in a renewed…
Thomas Thabane has announced he will step down as prime minister of Lesotho following months of pressure after he was…
The authorities are providing free transportation for pregnant women visiting hospitals in Antananarivo and Toamasina in Madagascar. To gesture is…
The number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the East Africa/Horn of Africa is dropping largely due to the return…
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is still facing the last phase of its Ebola virus epidemic and confronting…
Despite border restrictions in the Middle-East due to the rampaging COVID-19 pandemic, African migrants are still exploiting the region to…
The lesson Sierra Leone learned from the Ebola outbreak is helping her to tackle the menace of COVID-19 pandemic. Sierra…
The rapid spread of COVID-19 in West and Central Africa has led to a shortage of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). …
The United Nations migration agency is currently assisting African miners who fled violence last month in Burkina Faso’s southern district. …
After fleeing clashes in Diebougou, a gold mining region in Burkina Faso’s south, over 1,300 Nigeriens are currently stranded in…