Africa

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says the Republic of Benin, Liberia, and Sierra Leone have launched a large-scale rollout of the life-saving malaria vaccine targeting millions of children across the three West African nations.

At least 155 people have died in Tanzania as torrential rains linked to El Nino triggered flooding and landslides, Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa said Thursday.

The death toll from a migrant boat disaster off Djibouti this week has risen to 24, the UN's migration agency said, highlighting a sharp increase in the number of people returning from Yemen to the Horn of Africa nation this year.

A Professor of International Relations from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Alade Fawole, and the Head of Department, Political Science and International Relations, KolaDaisi University, Ibadan (KDU-I), Dr. Adebukola Ayoola...

The Rwandan government has said it welcomes the decision by the British parliament to approve its migrant deportation bill.

Boko Haram fighters ambushed and wounded five Nigerien soldiers who were protecting a key agricultural site near the Nigerian border, local authorities said Wednesday. The site is one of two in Niger's southeastern Diffa region created to boost rice and wheat production and generate more than 12,000 jobs, according to the agriculture ministry. Diffa governor…

A total of 118 people were the victim of extrajudicial killings by Kenyan police last year, local and international rights groups said in a report published on Wednesday, decrying the "impunity" still enjoyed by the security forces. The figure is down around nine percent from 130 in 2022, while the number of "enforced disappearances" dropped…

Food insecurity worsened around the world in 2023, with some 282 million people suffering from acute hunger due to conflicts, particularly in Gaza and Sudan, UN agencies and development groups said Wednesday. Extreme weather events and economic shocks also added to the number of those facing acute food insecurity, which grew by 24 million people…

As Kenya’s meteorological department forecasts more heavy rainfall this week, the number of people impacted by the rain rises above average as it continues. Residents of Machakos county were stranded by flood water that destroyed their homes and farms.

At least 16 people are dead and 28 missing in a new migrant boat disaster off the coast of the Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti, the UN's International Organization for Migration said on Tuesday. The accident occurred about two weeks after another boat carrying mainly Ethiopian migrants sank off the Djibouti coast, claiming several…

Senegal's new leader, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, has called for a "rethought" relationship with the EU during a visit by European Council President Charles Michel. Faye, who was inaugurated as president on April 2, was elected on pledges of radical reform and promises to restore national "sovereignty" over key industries. Speaking at a joint press conference…

African leaders called for more regional cooperation in fighting terrorism on Monday at a summit to look for African-led solutions to the continent's security challenges, including creating a possible regional military force.