World / Africa

For Ugandan children, hunger and HIV make a deadly mix 22 Mar 2017 - 09:09 am

KATAKWI, Uganda: Seven-year-old Esther Agutti weighs 7 kilos - a third of the weight of the average child her age. She has been...

Cameroon forcing thousands of refugees to return to Boko Haram-hit Nigeria 21 Mar 2017 - 04:20 pm

DAKAR: Cameroon is forcing thousands of Nigerian refugees uprooted by the jihadist group Boko Haram to go home against their will, despite a...

Droughts in NE Uganda to worsen, says WFP report 21 Mar 2017 - 11:20 am

KAMPALA, Uganda: A new weather pattern threatens to worsen food insecurity in Uganda’s northeastern Karamoja region, according to a report. The Ugandan government...

Hunger kills at least 26 in Somalia's Jubbaland region 21 Mar 2017 - 10:25 am

MOGADISHU: At least 26 people died from hunger in the semi-autonomous Jubbaland region of southern Somalia in just a day an a half,...

Plane crashes at South Sudan airport, several people injured 20 Mar 2017 - 05:24 pm

JUBA: A plane belonging to a small South Sudanese airline crash-landed at the airport of the northwestern town of Wau on Monday, injuring...

Zimbabwe appeals for millions after deadly floods 20 Mar 2017 - 02:21 pm

HARARE, Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe on Monday officially launched an appeal for almost $189 million to help victims of recent deadly flooding. Extreme weather has...

Falling tree kills at least 18 at Ghana waterfall 20 Mar 2017 - 01:59 pm

ACCRA: At least 18 people were killed when a large tree fell into the pool they were bathing in at the base of...

Ghana: 18 dead after tree falls at waterfall 20 Mar 2017 - 01:33 pm

ACCRA, Ghana: At least 18 people have died at a popular tourist site in Ghana after a tree at the top of a...

Mass graves in central Congo bear witness to growing violence 20 Mar 2017 - 11:18 am

TSHIMBULU, Democratic Republic of Congo: The increasingly brutal nature of fighting in central Congo between the army and local militia is on vivid...

10 killed in latest Kenya drought clash 20 Mar 2017 - 10:27 am

Nairobi: At least 10 people have been killed in the latest clashes in drought-hit Kenya between rural communities fighting over pasture to graze...

Former Burundi street child helps heal civil war divisions 20 Mar 2017 - 09:06 am

LONDON: In northern Burundi a group of 90 young people are harvesting their first crops - beans, maize and potatoes - but this...

Syrians finding refuge in Africa as war at home grinds on 19 Mar 2017 - 02:16 pm

ACCRA, Ghana: As desperate Syrians flee the devastating war in their country, some are finding refuge in sub-Saharan Africa, including Ghana. One imam...

Suicide bombers kill four people in northeast Nigeria 19 Mar 2017 - 02:09 pm

Abuja: Three suicide bombers killed four people and injured eight others in a village near the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, a police...

Police confirm 4 killed in Nigeria suicide bomb blast 19 Mar 2017 - 01:00 pm

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria: Four people including children and local security volunteers have been confirmed killed by bomb explosions in Nigeria's northeastern Maiduguri city. Police...

Somalia receives almost $1 billion worth of Turkish aid 19 Mar 2017 - 12:51 pm

BADEN-BADEN, Germany: Turkish deputy prime minister said Saturday Turkey has sent almost $1 billion worth of aid to Somalia since 2011 as part...

Kenya: 500 Tanzanian doctors hired in wake of strike 19 Mar 2017 - 12:46 pm

NAIROBI, Kenya: Kenya will hire 500 physicians from neighboring Tanzania in the wake of a three-month doctors’ strike that ended earlier this week,...

Congo: Search intensifies for 2 kidnapped UN workers 19 Mar 2017 - 12:43 pm

ARU, Democratic Republic of Congo: Efforts intensified Saturday to find two UN workers and four Congolese who were kidnapped a week ago in...

UN: S.Sudan’s refugee crisis world’s fastest growing 19 Mar 2017 - 12:13 pm

GENEVA: A famine produced by a vicious combination of fighting and drought is now driving the world’s fastest-growing refugee crisis in South Sudan...