There was a time when the withered Lake Chad region was the focal point of what climate change on the African continent looked like, and what it could or would mean for migration. Some 2.6 million people are displaced there, according to the most recent numbers from the United Nations…
Laureen is the editor of Africa Times
Officials with UNICEF, the United Nations children’s agency, warned Friday that conditions in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions continue to deteriorate with 1.3 million people now needing humanitarian aid. The armed violence and attacks have forced 450,000 people from their homes, about half of them internally displaced children, said UNICEF spokesman Toby…
Hundreds of South Sudanese are going home to their villages in an Upper Nile region now safe enough for their return, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) said Wednesday. Most chose to settle in Melut, a town near the civilian camp where they’ve been living. It is now…
Health officials say they’re planning to vaccinate nearly a million people in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno state amid a cholera outbreak that has claimed at least 40 lives in the past month. The Nigerian government, working with the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners, said Monday that health workers hope…