Africa

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…

With three months in, the current armed conflict in Sudan shows little signs of ending, as both sides continue to violate ceasefire. Since April, 3.1 million people have been displaced, thousands are thought to have been killed and even more wounded, with entire…

The Nonviolence Organization (Free Muslim) has expressed its satisfaction over the Moroccan King’s call to a symposium for the African Ulema (clerics), stressing its full support for this initiative. In a statement received by Shia Waves, the Organization said that,…

First malaria vaccine introduced, administered in Africa After years of scientific research, the first malaria vaccine was introduced. The vaccine will be available in 12 African countries in the next two years and will potentially save tens of thousands of…