Africa

Kenyans urge potential lenders to stop giving the government money over fears of growing debt.

The humanitarian situation in Tigray, Ethiopia, remains “dire”, the Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General said on Wednesday.  

The failure of Libya to investigate the unlawful arrest and torture of a women’s rights activist is a clear rights violation, the UN’s Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), said on Wednesday.

Victim blaming continues to trap survivors of sexual and gender based violence in a cycle of trauma.

In a bid to represent African culture, Chioma Inyang set out to wear an Ankara-styled gown on her wedding day.

Days of tribal clashes in Sudan’s West Darfur have left scores dead and thousands fleeing their homes, the UN envoy to the country said on Tuesday. 

Levels of hunger in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are at a “staggering” record high, now affecting one-in-three people, UN humanitarians warned on Tuesday. 

Support for climate adaptation in Africa is crucial, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday in appealing for greater action to provide renewable energy to hundreds of millions who still lack access to reliable and affordable electricity.

With a deteriorating security situation in central and northern Mali, the UN peacekeeping chief told the Security Council on Tuesday that ‘blue helmets’, the Malian Defence and Security Forces, continue to suffer repeated attacks and significant losses, while some large towns “live under constant threat from armed groups”.  

Seafarer Mohammed Aisha has been living on an abandoned cargo ship for four years, part of that time completely on his own.

Fifty-eight women and children of more than 600 who were abducted last year during vicious intercommunal fighting in South Sudan, have been reunited with their families, the UN Spokesperson told reporters on Monday.  

Kenyan Josephine Muchilwa lost her chef's job and then her business but is now trying something else.

Pakistan opener Fakhar Zaman hits a stunning 193 but South Africa win the second one-day international by 17 runs to level the series.

Survivors and their family members recount what happened when Islamist militants targeted Palma.

Egypt's pioneering ship captain has been targeted over false rumours about her role in the incident.

Zamalek grab a vital win to keep their African Champions League quarter-final hopes alive as holders Al Ahly and Simba book a spot in the last eight.

The Cairo spectacle sees the remains of 18 kings and four queens taken to a new resting place.

Dumsile Mavuso, the founder and head of Eswatini’s first national association for people with diabetes, is now bringing her knowledge and experience to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, in collaboration with the Government and the UN.

South Africa has faced a wave of Covid misinformation, but volunteers are fighting back.

The sanctions against top prosecutor Fatou Bensouda were imposed by former President Donald Trump.