WHO Africa says outbreak further complicated by coronavirus pandemic YAOUNDE, Cameroon Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) Equateur province continues to be of grave concern, the World Health…
At least 5.4 million people have been affected by severe flooding, with 11,000 households displaced and 135 people killed, the United Nations said. United Nations: The United Nations stands ready…
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — An outcry is rising in Somalia as parliament considers a bill that would allow child marriage once a girl’s sexual organs mature and would allow forced marriage…
MINSK, Belarus (AP) — The top opposition candidate in Belarus’ presidential election left for Lithuania Tuesday but anti-government demonstrators still turned out for a third straight night to protest the…
A team of United Nations experts arrived on the island nation of Mauritius on Tuesday to aid efforts to prevent an oil spill from further damaging its pristine environment. Salvage…
After all-too-common acts of police brutality against Black women, the hashtag #SayHerName” now peppers social media timelines. The phrase, codified in 2014 through Kimberlé Crenshaw’s Say Her Name campaign, serves…
The battle to define the movement comes as the president and fellow GOP candidates try to win back suburban voters. For a brief moment after George Floyd was killed by…
To get around 100 South Africans and a couple of dozen Zimbabwean students out of China, it would take Air Zimbabwe's only functioning aircraft, and diplomatic channels in embassies across…
For many young people, racial inequality and the climate emergency are inseparable issues “[Without the climate strikes], I would have been a lot less confident, I wouldn’t have known how…
Gang networks in Sicily have become more entrenched during lockdown, exploiting migrant agricultural workers in a practice known as "caporalato". Late one night in early June, Adnan Siddique’s neighbours heard…