Africa

Sickle cell is most common among Black people and one in 365 Black babies are born with the disease nationally

The hit on world grain supplies from Russia’s war in Ukraine compounds the ills of African conflicts, climate change and the aftereffects of the Covid-19 pandemic

The conflicts in Eastern Europe and the Middle East could make cooperation between the nations to move the globe off fossil fuels even more difficult

President Julius Maada Bio tweeted that the unidentified gunmen attacked an armory in the capital Freetown early Sunday morning

The military governments of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger pledged security and political collaborations under the Alliance of Sahel States

Tumaini Fest has taken place every year on the first weekend in November since 2014, bringing together artists and residents of the Dzaleka camp in Malawi with one goal in mind: to promote coexistence and combat xenophobia

Long lines formed outside recruitment centers each day over the past week as young people have sought to join the army, one of the few institutions offering work in Congo

The U.N. is negotiating a new global treaty this week in Nairobi to manage the huge problem posed by plastics. John Chweya, leader of Kenya’s waste pickers, demands a voice for representatives of the world’s 20 million garbage workers

Dominique Hyde, the U.N. Refugee Agency’s director of foreign relations, says the humanitarian crisis resulting from the war in Sudan is the worst she’s seen in three decades

A WHO-commissioned panel found at least 83 perpetrators during the Ebola response, including at least 21 WHO staffers. The youngest known victim was 13

The country plans to immunize 7.7 million girls and adolescents against this pathogen, which causes the majority of cases of cervical cancer. About 8,000 Nigerians died from this cause in 2020, as cases are detected when they are advanced

Denmark and Britain, which tried to relocate some asylum-seekers to Rwanda before an appeals court intervened, have so far failed to implement similar measures

In Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park, nature has roared back to life thanks to a commitment to human development – with a focus on girls – alongside the protection of animals

Lamar’s show at the BK Arena in Kigali, Rwanda, will show the opportunities for artists who appeal to Africa’s booming generation of young people, says Global Citizen’s CEO, Hugh Evans

More than 70 nongovernmental organizations issued a letter Monday to Paris regional authorities warning of a risk of ‘social cleansing’

While welcomed in principle, the abrupt charcoal ban has left both traders and buyers unsure of where to turn

More than 4 million people were displaced within Congo because of conflict in 2022, the most in Africa and second in the world only to Ukraine

The mineral is the Hichilema government’s ticket to pay the foreign debt, but financing the exploitation requires a substantial investment

The Kenyan anthropologist, who is part of the European Network Against Racism, is calling for better education to change the narrative on colonization

Historian and political scientist Rahmane Idrissa believes that Niger’s coup d’état will cause the infrastructures that channel foreign aid to be restricted, which will harm the most disadvantaged population

A report from a human rights defense organization includes 300 cases of abuse against LGBTQ+ Ugandans so far this year

Climate challenges are at the root of problems faced by conflict-ridden countries in Africa’s Sahel region. The lending institutions are not taking the vulnerabilities of poor countries enough into account in their funding decisions, experts say

Around 99% of doses that are administered on the continent are imported. To address this problem, vaccine manufacturing facilities in Senegal, Rwanda, and South Africa are showing interest in a technology that reduces production costs and gets around patent barriers

Over 120 million children around the world are homeless, and 30 million are in Africa. Thousands are in this African country

Officials gathering in Marrakech on Monday said they would focus on Africa as they work to stabilize and grow the global economy

South African data scientist Pelonomi Moiloa is the founder of one of the continent’s first companies that develop AI-based products