Africa

The death toll in a truck bomb explosion that targeted a security checkpoint in a residential area in the central Somali town of Beledweyne has risen to 18, a top regional official said on Saturday. According to the director-general of…

At least 30 refugees have died of hunger and malnutrition in Ethiopia’s Gambella region, said Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) on Wednesday, calling for the immediate resumption of nutritionally adequate food assistance to all refugee communities. Close to 400,000 refugees…

In response to a suicide bombing on the Galmudug state president, killing two soldiers and injuring two members of Somalia’s Federal Parliament, the Somali army launched a military operation on Saturday which killed at least 30 al-Shabaab terrorists and liberated…

UNICEF’s Representative in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) condemned on Friday the heinous acts of violence against children. The children are becoming more normalised to sexual violence, forced displacement and access to basic necessities like clean water, education, and…

At least 53 members of Burkina Faso’s security forces, seventeen soldiers and 36 volunteers, have been killed during heavy clashes with rebel fighters on Monday in Koumbri commune in Yatenga province, according to a statement by the army. The security…

Nearly 1 million children in Mali will be subject to acute malnutrition by the end of the year without life-saving humanitarian aid as 200,000 face the dire prospect of death by starvation, the UN warned Friday. About one in four…

Armed gunmen killed at least 23 people and wounded 12 in an attack on a village in central Mali, officials said Sunday. Sidi Mohamed El Bechir, governor of the Bandiagara region where the attack took place, said unidentified men killed…

More than 450 homes have been destroyed in Sudan’s north due to heavy rains, the country’s official media reported. Medics and aid groups warned earlier that the rainy season, which began in June, could raise risk of malnutrition, vector-borne diseases…

The World Bank has disclosed in a new update that around 7.1 million additional Nigerians will be forced into poverty due to inflation in case no compensation is urgently made. The World Bank’s Nigeria Development Update, released on Thursday, revealed…

The Libyan border guards have rescued between 50-70 refugees and migrants who have been left in the desert by Tunisian authorities without water or food, and their numbers are “rising”, a Libyan official told the AFP. Hundreds of refugees and…