Africa

Nigerian author and Nobel prize winner Prof Wole Soyinka was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2014.

Community leaders issued an apology on Monday after rioting on 21 November by “drunken youth” within a UN Protection of Civilians site run by UNMISS in South Sudan, left two dead and eight UN personnel injured, including five police officers.

Feronia, 38% owned by the UK government’s development bank, is accused of dumping toxic waste into the rivers used for drinking water, says Human Rights Watch.

Cancer patient Esther Wafor explains why she travelled Cameroon to India for treatment.

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A campaign to vaccinate some 1.7 million children in Somalia was launched on Sunday by the country’s government, in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

Abinet Tadesse loved his truck. He also needed somewhere to live. So he built a house in his truck.

People in DR Congo spend 26% of the average income to get online - a luxury too far for many.

Ten roads, including one of the main roads in the capital, will be renamed after President Mnangagwa.

Not everyone agrees with the plan to merge the ethnically-based parties in the governing coalition.

Amid multiple deadly attacks on civilians by armed groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), an Ebola death “unlinked to any chain of transmission” risks reversing major gains against the epidemic, which is now down to just a handful of cases, a top UN medic said on Friday. 

The situation in Africa’s Sahel region continues to be “of serious concern and urgent action is needed”, a high-level United Nations official told the Security Council on Wednesday, attributing a rising number of attacks to terrorist armed groups.

A referendum on the creation of a new region will see if ethnic rivalries can be solved at the ballot box.

As African countries gear up to implement an historic free trade agreement, the UN Secretary-General is urging leaders to pursue economic growth that benefits both people and the planet.

The authorities are battling to cap inflation as the Zimbabwean dollar is reintroduced.

Violent attacks by extremists “almost every day” in the Sahel nations of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso have displaced nearly one million people and caused emergency levels of malnutrition, UN humanitarians have said.

A recent resurgence of violence in Tripoli, means Libya is “ever more in a race against time” to reach peace, however, agreeing the way forward to ending the conflict “is a realistic prospect”, the top UN official in the country told the Security Council on Monday.    

In the drive towards universal health coverage, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the African Union (AU) Commission cemented their mutual commitment to global health by signing on Monday an historic agreement.

More than 28 million children in northern Nigeria will be protected against measles and meningitis through an immunization campaign  carried out by the authorities alongside international partners, including the World Health Organization (WHO).

The UN Secretary-General has welcomed the decision to push back the deadline for the formation of a unity Government in South Sudan.