Disasters such as earthquakes and floods have killed 1.3 million people over the last 20 years and left a further 4.4 billion injured, homeless or in need of humanitarian aid, United Nations experts said on Wednesday. In many of those situations, climate change is making matters worse, the UN said….
There are still no official results in Cameroon’s presidential election, with the latest word from ELECAM — the West African nation’s electoral commission — reiterating that under the country’s constitution they have 15 days from the closing of Sunday’s polls to report the results. That’s kept tensions high in a nation that, for…
Harriett Baldwin, the British Foreign Office development minister for Africa, has completed a tour of East African nations to announce development and humanitarian aid from the United Kingdom. Baldwin made stops in Uganda, Ethiopia and Somalia, including a visit with President Muse Bihi in Somaliland to pledge UK support for economic…
Zimbabwe’s deteriorating economic situation has led to another round of panic buying and price spikes…
Turkey is set to welcome ministers and business representatives from 49 African countries as the…
The new World Economic Outlook report projects that global growth will remain steady over 2018–19 at last…
A key climate report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released Monday warns…
The Ebola virus has now claimed 113 lives in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo,…
