Representatives from the UN and major aid organisations have warned of growing humanitarian threats affecting millions of people worldwide. Africa is facing a rapidly expanding Ebola outbreak, with more than a thousand confirmed…

More than four hundred women and children abducted earlier this year by Boko Haram militants in northeastern Nigeria have been freed, according to local leaders and government officials. The captives were taken from…

Emmanuel Macron and Rwandan president Paul Kagame have inaugurated a new memorial in Paris honouring the victims of the 1994 Rwanda genocide. Unveiled on the banks of the River Seine, the monument, known…

Three Christians were killed and 15 others abducted when armed attackers stormed a church prayer vigil in Kwara State, western Nigeria, on 23 May. The assault took place during an overnight gathering at…

Communities in Nigeria’s Niger Delta are pursuing legal action against Shell over extensive environmental damage linked to repeated oil spills from the Nembe Creek Trunk Line pipeline. Internal company documents disclosed during court…

For generations, women in Sierra Leone have supported their families by harvesting oysters from mangrove forests along the coast near Freetown. The physically demanding work, carried out in muddy waters and intense heat,…

The National Assembly has elected Senegal’s former prime minister Ousmane Sonko as speaker, only days after the president, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, dismissed him from office amid rising political tensions. Sonko, founder of the…

Health officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo are responding to an Ebola outbreak caused by the rare Bundibugyo strain, for which there is currently no approved vaccine. The disease spreads through contact…

Nigerian forces working with US troops say they have killed 175 IS fighters in a series of joint operations in northeastern Nigeria targeting the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP). The strikes destroyed…

Authorities in Kenya are responding to a growing international trade in giant African harvester ants, prized by collectors in Europe and Asia as exotic pets. Two recent convictions for ant smuggling have highlighted…