Category: General

While almost every country has experienced disruption to its health services since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, several countries in Africa have been severely impacted, leading to the suspension of maternal, neonatal, and child health care. Project HOPE warns that decades of progress made to prevent maternal complications and deaths across the continent could […]

Benin voters are casting their ballots Sunday in a presidential election after a week of deadly violence against President Patrice Talon, who is seeking reelection. Opposition parties accuse Talon, who is expected to win a second term, of manipulating the race in his favor by sidelining opposition leaders, most of whom are living in exile. […]

CAIRO/KHARTOUM – Sudan will receive $400 million from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to fund agricultural production inputs for this year’s summer and winter seasons, the state-news agency SUNA said Sunday. Saudi Arabia has committed to contributing $3 billion in a joint fund for investments in Sudan, and to encouraging other parties to […]

MAROUA, CAMEROON – About 60 former fighters and civilians rescued from Boko Haram by Nigerian, Chadian and Cameroonian troops have been rushed to a disarmament, demobilization and reintegration center in northern Cameroon. Most of the civilians are women and children, some with fresh scars and amputated body parts, an indication of torture by the terror […]

At least two people were killed during violent protests Friday against the United Nations peacekeeping mission in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local officials said. Troops attached to the U.N. mission, known as MONUSCO, killed one person during a protest in the rural area of Oicha, its mayor Nicolas Kikuku told Reuters. “They [the protesters] […]

ABUJA, April 9 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) — Nearly 20 million people face a food crisis in West Africa and the Sahel region as the vast area is torn by conflicts and the coronavirus pandemic, experts warned. The situation could worsen between June and August, with as many as 27 million people needing immediate food aid, or nearly […]

GENEVA – The U.N. human rights office is urging Sudanese authorities to speed up the deployment of security forces to West Darfur, in an effort to protect civilians from ethnic and tribal clashes in the region. The latest resurgence of violence nearly one week ago has left more than 130 people dead and more than […]