Six aid workers have been killed in an ambush in famine-hit South Sudan, the United Nations said on Sunday, without specifying what organisation they worked for. The victims were attacked on Saturday...
Aid agencies say the “shocking” killing of six aid workers in South Sudan on Saturday is causing them to re-assess how and when they can deliver supplies. The victims were ambushed by unknown...
South Sudanese rebel group Sudan People’s Liberation Movement In-Opposition (SPLM-IO) led by former Vice President Riek Machar has accused government forces of killing six aid workers on Saturday....
Families of aid workers killed in an ambush in South Sudan on Saturday have been at the morgue in the capital, Juba, waiting to collect the bodies of their loved ones. The UN has called it the worst...
The Finnish government has allocated over EUR 18 million (over $20 million) to five famine-hit African countries at risk of death and starvation caused by drought and conflict. The countries are...
The Sudanese government has pledged to open a new corridor to South Sudan for swift delivery of humanitarian aid to the famine-hit neighbouring country. Sudan’s Foreign Ministry Under-Secretary...
A South Sudan rebel spokesperson quoted by the Reuters news agency is blaming the government for the deaths of six aid workers at the weekend. They were travelling between Juba, the capital, and the...
Madagascar won successive Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers for the first time since 2007 by defeating Sao Tome e Principe 3-2 on Sunday to reach the group phase of qualifiers for the 2019 tournament....
Kenya dominated the World Cross-Country Championships on Sunday, Geoffrey Kamworor defending his men's title, Irene Cheptai leading a historic cleansweep in the women's race and Asbel Kiprop helping...
Six aid workers have been killed in an ambush in South Sudan, the UN said Sunday, the latest such attack in the country suffering a famine blamed on a brutal civil war. The aid workers were killed...
South Sudan's rebel movement (SPLA-OI) led by former South Sudanese Vice President Riek Machar suffered another blow after six officials from the group joined the splinter faction led by Incumbent...
The election of Ahmad Ahmad as new CAF President boosts Gianni Infantino’s power. The key question remains: Was there foul play in the process? No one could safely predict the outcome before the...
A top US military commander has said the LRA has been reduced to "irrelevance" after years of joint military operations have killed most of its forces. Its leader, Joseph Kony, is still on the run....
More than 250 people have been killed so far in this rainy season as floods have left remote communities isolated. ZIMBABWE'S FLOODS Tropical Storm Dineo made landfall in Mozambique in February It...
United Nations peacekeeping missions, under threat from budget cuts if Washington's promise to slash its UN spending goes ahead, are already costing as little as possible, a UN official said Friday....
The United Nations commission of inquiry for South Sudan now has broader powers to pursue human rights abuses in the country's civil war. The U. N. Human Rights Council on Thursday gave the...
A third of Yemen's 22 provinces are on the brink of famine, the UN said Friday, warning that 60 percent of the war-ravaged country's population was going hungry. Yemen, long one of the world's...
Guterres called for South Sudan's leaders to do more to help the 7.5 million in need of aid Secretary General Guterres says government in Juba refuses to acknowledge plight of 100,000 people...
Before he staged a professional comeback last week, the rapper Kayem had disappeared from public life for two years. A US citizen by birth who remembers his relatives' suffering at the hands of...
The UN Security Council voiced alarm about the deepening humanitarian crisis and famine in South Sudan, with the United States, Britain and France raising anew the idea of sanctions and a weapons...
