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According to an alert from the IPC, a global food security monitoring system, thresholds for acute malnutrition were surpassed in…

As fighting intensifies there between opposition forces and national troops, there are reports of airstrikes and daily civilian casualties.UN agencies…

The raiders stormed a rural community in central Nigeria, killing dozens and setting homes on fire in one of the…

John Steenhuisen, who led a party supporting the A.N.C. in a coalition government, is leaving after controversies about his handling…

Speaking at a donor conference in Washington, DC, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher warned that the brutal conflict, famine…

Mr. el-Qaddafi, 53, a politician and a son of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, was killed after four men stormed his house,…

Parasites and infections that cause blindness and other disabilities were nearly eliminated in some countries, but drug distribution to prevent…

Experts are using high-res scanners and 3-D printers to illuminate ancient ailments and injuries. Source link

Briefing journalists based at UN Headquarters in New York on Friday, Anita Kiki Gbeho, Officer in Charge of the UN…

The 8,262-mile journey took him through 21 countries, transforming an extraordinary physical feat into a powerful act of activism, aimed…

The covert base offers new evidence of how the Sudanese conflict is morphing into a theater for high-tech warfare, driven…

A yearslong effort to convince Washington of religious persecution is shifting foreign policy toward the West African nation, with major…

Briefing journalists in Geneva on Friday, Eva Hinds, the UN child agency’s Chief of Communications, described a humanitarian response that…

The tensions are concentrated in South Sudan’s Jonglei State, where many deaths and injuries have been reported in response to…

The strikes thrust Nigeria’s long-running sectarian bloodshed into the global spotlight – and revived claims that a “Christian genocide” is…

More than 100 deaths have been confirmed across South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, with the rains expected to continue through…

The distributor, which was set to release the film on Friday, said it had canceled the theatrical premiere because of…

Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, often called “the conscience of the nation,” has been trying to tone down the uproar after…

The exercises were the second time in six months that President Cyril Ramaphosa appeared to be blindsided by his own…

UNMISS expressed grave concern following reports that a senior military leader is urging troops to inflict discriminate violence against civilians, with more than…

Since the beginning of the civil war in Sudan, tens of thousands of refugees have fled south to the area,…

In Kenya, agriculture employs up to 75 per cent of the population, but farmers’ livelihoods are being threatened by a…

The bloody crackdown offers hints about growing tensions inside the country’s ruling system as the cleric’s rule comes under strain.…

The bloody crackdown offers hints about growing tensions inside the country’s ruling system as the cleric’s rule comes under strain.…