Nairobi (AFP) - The results of a three-year aerial survey of Africa's elephants published Thursday revealed a dramatic 30 percent decline in savannah elephant populations, largely due to poaching....
Nairobi (AFP) - With a peace deal unravelling in South Sudan and jihadist attacks continuing in Somalia, US Secretary of State John Kerry met with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta in Nairobi on...
There are close to a million refugees in the Great Lakes region. Another 1.61 million living in camps in South Sudan. But there is no money. And when the United Nations High Commission for Refugees...
The Right to Information Coalition (RTI) of Ghana has begun moves to hold government on its promise to pass the Right to Information bill into law this year. As part of the move the group had...
The United Nations' top human-rights official has accused South Sudanese government troops and rebels of ethnically targeted atrocities, including extrajudicial executions and rapes, during renewed...
Ghana has been ranked the 34th country with the most modern slaves out of 167 countries in the world, with survey results estimating that there are 103,300 people enslaved in the country.
According...
After over 21-year-long civil war between north and south Sudan (supposed to have officially ended in 2005), and following the partition of the country on July 9 2011, tensions still remain highly...
(South Sudan,Médecins Sans Frontières) A significant decline in the number of new cholera cases in South Sudan in recent weeks has prompted the international medical organisation Médecins Sans...
A United Nations cargo helicopter crashed Tuesday in the north part of South Sudan, killing three crew members and injuring another, a UN spokesman told reporters here.
"The United Nations Mission in...
More than 3,000 homes have been destroyed by floods that hit almost half of Sudan's states over Ramadan and the Eid al-Fitr holidays, official media has said.
At least 184 people were injured and...
