Accra, Ghana - To strengthen regional readiness for infectious disease outbreaks, the World Health Organization (WHO), in collaboration with United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), World Food ...

Burkina Faso's military regime wants to reinstate the death penalty, which was abolished in the country in 2018, a government source told AFP news agency on Saturday.

Huldah Momanyi Hiltsley made history November 5 by becoming the first Kenyan-born immigrant elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives. She describes her victory as a testament to resilience, ...

A senior Somali official insisted Saturday that Ethiopia will not participate in a new African Union peacekeeping mission starting in January.

Forced on the retreat in its former colonies in West Africa, France has officially endorsed Morocco's illegal occupation of Western Sahara, and struck deals to partner in extracting its resources.

The twelfth edition of the World Urban Forum wrapped up on Friday with the adoption of the Cairo Call to Action, after intense discussions focused on the global housing crisis and financing ...

Of the 3,544 deaths related to long COVID in the US up to June 2022, the most commonly recorded underlying cause was COVID itself (67.5%). This could mean they died as a result of one of the long-term ...

Kenya and the United States have signalled their commitment to the Kenya-led mission in Haiti, dispelling concerns over a potential policy shift under incoming U.S. President Donald Trump. Kenyan ...

Fifteen service categories, comprising a total of 110 interventions, have been identified in Africa as priorities for delivery through Community Health Workers. Now, health economists are analyzing ...

The Central Bank of Sudan (CBoS) yesterday announced the issuance of a new banknote of SDG1,000 as part of the bank's efforts to modernise the currency and improve the security standards used in ...

Analysis - Professor Noel Chabani Manganyi, who has died at the age of 84, was a torchbearer in psychology, literature and African intellectual thought.

Analysis - Salva Kiir Mayardit has served as South Sudan's president since the country's independence in 2011. South Sudan's secession from Sudan came on the heels of a long and bloody civil war that ...