Category: Africa
With senior United Nations officials warning of escalating inter-communal violence and rampant human rights violations in South Sudan, the Security Council today strongly condemned all attacks and provocations against civilians and the UN by armed ...
Militants have attacked a United Nations base in northern Mali, leaving at least three UN peacekeepers dead and injuring 30 others. Olivier Salgado, spokesman for the UN mission in Mali (MINUSMA), said shelling hit the ...
The worst drought to hit Ethiopia in 50 years is about to become a crisis according to the charity Save the Children. It is warning that emergency food aid for 10 million Ethiopians will run ...
According to a new United Nations food security and nutrition assessment, the situation in Somalia is alarming and could get worse, especially in parts of Puntland and Somaliland, which have been hard hit by drought ...
How long the men of war are there? Researchers have found in Kenya a set of skeletons bearing traces of fatal injury, suggesting a « mass murder » 10,000 years ago when prehistoric man was not yet ...
Three foreign tourists have been injured after attackers stormed into a hotel in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Hurghada. Three tourists, two Americans and a Swede, were injured Friday in an attack in Egypt ...
The government of the Central African Republic and United Nations peacekeepers should urgently address sexual violence against women and girls by armed militia in the capital, Bangui. Human Rights Watch documented some cases in which ...
At least 10 police officers have sustained injuries when a powerful explosion struck their two armored vehicles in Egypt’s violence-plagued Sinai Peninsula. Egyptian security officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the policemen were travelling ...
An explosion in Egypt’s volatile Sinai Peninsula has killed four soldiers and injured four others as deadly violence continues unabated in the region, a report says. The blast occurred on Tuesday when a military convoy ...
Due to severe shortages of fuel, food, medicines and vaccines, more than three million children under the age of 5 are at risk of death or disease during the harsh winter months in Nepal, the ...
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