Africa: Africa

Award-winning journalist Mariam Ouedraogo finds it impossible to forget the heartbreaking stories she has covered about ...

Sierra Leonean authorities were treating clashes that killed 21 people in the capital Freetown at the weekend as a faile ...

Extreme weather events in countries vulnerable to climate change drove more than 27 million children into hunger last ye ...

Clashes that shook Sierra Leone's capital Freetown on Sunday left 13 dead in the ranks of the army loyal to the governme ...

Tunisian film star Hend Sabri has resigned as World Food Programme goodwill ambassador in protest at what she called the ...

Climate talks often revolve around reducing the most dangerous greenhouse gas CO2. But other powerful heat-trapping e ...

The presence of United Nations peacekeepers, whose shortcomings can frustrate local populations, is not a magic wand f ...

The latest negotiations toward a global plastic treaty concluded late Sunday with disagreement about how the pact should ...

As a filmmaker and head of Ghana's film agency, Juliet Yaa Asantewa Asante said she always had the same sense when atten ...

Elements of the Ethiopian State security forces have unlawfully arrested, detained and physically assaulted two membe ...

More than 100 people, including 16 children, have died and over 700,000 been forced out of their homes in the Horn of Af ...

The UN warned Wednesday that the number of sand and dust storms are increasing dramatically with Central Asia most hit ...

Nearly five times more people will likely die due to extreme heat in the coming decades, an international team of expert ...