Africa

Maiduguri: The flooding that has swept through parts of West and Central Africa this year has claimed hundreds of lives, devastated infrastructure and...

Geneva: The global vaccine group Gavi has ordered 500,000 Mpox vaccine doses from the German-Danish company Bavarian Nordic.The UN Children's Fund is to...

Windhoek: Google the words "cull," "hunting" and "Namibia" and hundreds of search results will appear going back years. They advertise opportunities to...

Kinshasa: A court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo sentenced 37 people to death on Friday over their role in an alleged coup plot several months...

Juba: South Sudan has postponed its long-awaited elections until December 2026, the government announced on Friday, revealing the fragility of the peace...

Geneva: The United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada Al Nashif affirmed that the Sudanese people are currently facing one of the worst...

Kampala: Violence against women occurs everywhere. At the moment, Uganda is mourning a particularly prominent victim of gender-based violence after the...

Nairobi: Authorities in Kenya confirmed on Saturday that 21 boys died in a fire that broke out in a school dormitory. An estimate from earlier this week put...

New Delhi: Spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs, Randhir Jaiswal said that India sent food assistance to Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi on...

Johannesburg: “Corruption creates a lot of uncertainty in the country,” said Someleze Sigudu, a 28-year-old South African, who, like many of his peers,...