Some 14 000 people have fled violence in the Central African Republic and crossed into the Democratic Republic of Congo in less than a week, the United Nations said on Friday.
A peacekeeper was killed and eight others were injured Thursday during an attack on a convoy in the Central African Republic, the UN's Minusca force and the Mauritanian army said.
The United Nations and other international rights groups are calling on Sudan’s president to revoke a death sentence handed down to a 19 year old girl for killing a man during rape.
The World Health Organization has announced it is planning to send Ebola vaccines to the town of Bikoro in north-western Democratic Republic of Congo where new cases of the deadly virus have been recorded.
The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor requested help from the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday to arrest three fugitives in Libya, including a military commander serving under strongman Khalifa Haftar and a son of the late leader Muammar Gaddafi.
The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Monday urged the Democratic Republic of Congo's government to lift a ban on demonstrations that threatens to scupper chances for credible elections.
Ghana has rejected an assessment made by the UN about its poverty reduction programs describing it as “uninformed” while highlighting its commitment to uplifting the living conditions of its people.
African migrants and asylum seekers in Yemen are being subjected to physical and sexual abuse in detention, Human Rights Watch(HRW) and the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said.
The United Nations has raised $528 million in pledges from donors after holding an aid conference to help deal with the humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Some new apartments built at the residence of the Nigerian High Commissioner in Ghana’s capital city Accra, have been demolished by bulldozers.
The apartments have been constructed to...
Ghanaian health officials on Saturday said over 10,000 persons infected with the coronavirus have now recovered.
The significant number of recoveries means the country now...
Zimbabwe's Health Minister Obadiah Moyo has been arrested over corruption allegations related to procurement of medical equipment worth $60 million.
Moyo is accused of illegally...
