Category: Africa
Among the dead were two Malian soldiers, while the body of a white man was seen lying sprawled outside the hotel in the town of Sevare, military sources said. Malian troops surrounded the hotel and ...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned today that the more than 70,000 Liberian children whose births were not recorded during the Ebola outbreak may be unable to access basic health and social services, obtain ...
Muslims returning to ethnically-cleansed areas of western CAR have in some cases been forced to abandon their religion, said Amnesty International in a report published today. The report, “Erased identity: Muslims in ethnically cleansed areas ...
West Africa is at risk of a large meningitis outbreak unless drug manufacturers increase vaccine production by 5 million doses before the 2016 meningitis season starts in January, the United Nations and leading public health ...
At least 19 people were killed in a suicide bombing in the northern Cameroonian town of Maroua on Saturday, a local military commander said, just three days after twin bombings there suspected to have been ...
Three months after the first of the devastating earthquakes that hit Nepal, hundreds of thousands of survivors continue to require and rely on urgent humanitarian assistance, the top United Nations humanitarian official in the recovering ...
Up to 40 African migrants are feared drowned off the coast of Libya. Survivors who came ashore in Sicily after being rescued by a German navy ship told aid agencies that their boat had started ...
New cases of Ebola have been detected in Liberia, nearly two months after the West African country was declared free of the virus. The authorities are monitoring at least 100 people thought to have been ...
United Nations officials have condemned the attack perpetrated by Al Shabaab militants against an African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) base. In a statement issued this afternoon by the UN spokesperson, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has ...
South Sudan’s health ministry declared a cholera outbreak in the country following the death of at least 18 people across nine medical facilities, Sudan’s Radio Tamazuj reported Tuesday. Additionally, over 170 suspected cholera cases have ...
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