A new round of locust swarms has hit Ethiopia and is again threatening crops and food security, say agricultural officials.
Dereje Hirpha, the Oromia region's head of locust control, tells VOA's Horn of Africa Service …
Efforts aimed at redressing gender inequalities and socioeconomic inequities can mitigate factors that fuel the HIV epidemic.
In a study in Eswatini, cash transfers aimed at keeping adolescent girls and young women in school and …
Killings and rapes committed by armed militias in the Democratic Republic of Congo's northeastern Ituri province could constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity, according to a new report from the UN's Joint Human Rights …
KINSHASA - Islamist rebels killed 30 soldiers and wounded another 70, some seriously, during fierce fighting last week in eastern DR Congo, army officials said.
They suffered the losses during the latest offensive Thursday against …
Two Eritrean asylum-seekers were shot dead in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, days after the U.N. refugee agency pressed them to leave its facility citing overcrowding.
The UNHCR confirmed the deaths in a statement Friday saying …
KAMPALA, The Ugandan Revenue Authority, URA, recorded a marvelous bust as a woman attempted to smuggle a baby full of banned cosmetics into the country.
The baby in question was actually just the dress filled …
KAMPALA, Six workers were killed and three
others injured after a building under construction collapsed in the Kansanga suburb of the Ugandan capital of Kampala, local police said.
The bodies have been retrieved from the …
9 January 2020 - During the eighth session of the Conference of the State Parties (CoSP8) to the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) in Abu Dhabi, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime …
OUAGADOUGOU - Seven children and four women were among 14 civilians, killed when a roadside bomb blew up their bus in northwestern Burkina Faso, the government said.
"The provisional toll is 14 dead," a statement …
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO - Fourteen civilians, including many schoolchildren, died Saturday when a roadside bomb blew up their bus in northwestern Burkina Faso, a security source told AFP.
Four people were seriously hurt in the …
NAIROBI - Kenya said on Saturday it had started aerial spraying in three counties in the country's north to try to head off a locust invasion which has already caused extensive damage to farmland in …
KAMPALA, Six people died on the spot and four others were injured, after a truck rammed into a building, in the eastern district of Mayuge in Uganda.
James Mubi, Busoga East police spokesperson, spoke by …
NAIROBI - The World Health Organization says East Africa has the highest rate of cervical cancer in the world. In October, Kenya launched a mass vaccination of girls against the human papillomavirus (HPV), which can …