Category: Africa
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 ...
Ships from Italy, Germany, Britain and other EU countries have rescued nearly 6,000 migrants from the Mediterranean over the weekend. The influx has spurred backlash in Italy, where the migrants will initially be hosted. The ...
The UN refugee agency, citing government figures, on Friday said renewed fighting between armed groups in the Gao, Mopti and Timbuktu areas of northern Mali in the past four weeks has led to some 57,000 ...
A Somali lawmaker was shot and killed by gunmen in the capital Saturday, as dozens of Islamic extremists attacked two towns in southern Somalia, clashing with government troops in fighting that killed 18 militants and ...
Hundreds of Israeli Ethiopian Jews and activists held a rally on Monday evening in Tel Aviv to protest against alleged racism, an AFP journalist said. The march passed off without incident under the watch of ...
A number of Ethiopians arrested during last week’s protests against the Tel Aviv regime’s racism and police brutality say they were abused while in custody. The Ethiopians said the Israeli police denied them medical treatment ...
