As the world is grappling with the effects of climate change, Africa has borne the brunt of heat waves, flooding and droughts which have led to food insecurity, population displacement and economic ...

The US$ 450 million, granted in the context of Afreximbank’s strategic objective of promoting, facilitating, and supporting Africa’s industrialisation ecosystems, is part of a proposed US$ 800-million ...

In response to this development, Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has adapted by deploying mobile ...

A relatively sedate Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee confirmation hearing for National Institutes of Health Director-nominee Dr. Jay Bhattacharya revealed his five goals to ...

Communities in the DRC are urging the World Bank not to fund the costly, potentially destructive Inga 3 mega-dam.

A professor of global health was in Kivu when the fighting began to rage. She recounts what she and her colleagues ...

A devastating report from UNICEF has revealed the horrific scale of sexual violence against children, including infants as ...

UNHCR’s Division of International Protection, Patrick Eba, in a statement on Tuesday said that no fewer than 80,000 had left ...

In the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), insecurity and horrific sexual violence have left tens of thousands ...

An ongoing investigation into an unexplained illness cluster in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Equateur province ...

Deaths occurred soon after illness onset and mainly occurred in one village, with younger men disproportionately affected.

The Horn of Africa has some 26.3 million people living either as refugees or Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), the United ...