Opinion - When I posed the above question to a leading political figure from the south east who preferred anonymity, he appeared bristled by the question while answering it. He said "It is rather ...

A man, Malam Abdullah Usman, is yet to find three members of his family following the boat mishap which occurred at Kojiyo village in Goronyo Local Government State of Sokoto State on Sunday. Daily ...

The smell of fresh manure and the cheerful clucking of a thousand hens used to be the music of my childhood. My grandmother, a small-scale farmer in rural Kenya, made a decent living from her flock.

Limpopo police have launched a massive manhunt after two Zimbabwean nationals were brutally gunned down at Ha-Rangani Village in the Masisi policing area, Vhembe District, early Sunday morning.

Analysis - Droughts are a familiar hardship in Ghana's semi-arid north, where rainfall is erratic and agriculture is the mainstay of rural economies. The economic and environmental effects of drought ...

Analysis - Western Sahara is a disputed territory in north-west Africa. It lies south of Morocco, north-east of Mauritania, and west of Algeria. It was formerly known as Spanish Sahara, until Spain's ...

On 18 August, Murithi Mutiga, Crisis Group's Program Director for Africa, spoke to the UN Security Council on the need for global and regional partners to take urgent action in addressing the perilous ...

Africa's leadership at the Summit was not a symbolic gesture. It was a political statement: that the region hardest hit by the current food crisis is also prepared to lead efforts to fix the system.

Assistant Secretary-General for Africa, Martha Pobee, briefed the Security Council on the deteriorating security and humanitarian conditions in South Sudan on Monday.

The problem with the Rubio memo is not what it says about American attitude towards Africa, it is what it says about the country's conception of itself and its historical mission as the world's ...

Security Council members discussed solutions to the climate crisis in South Sudan, advocating for more humanitarian aid and influence from international bodies to foster democracy and minimize ...

Sarah Namukisa nearly missed her final year exams earlier this year. She was subjected to a mandatory pregnancy test--the 25-year-old student at the Medical Laboratory Training School in Jinja was ...