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South Sudan’s seasonal flooding, once a predictable part of life, has become an annual catastrophe, displacing hundreds of thousands of people and plunging communities deeper into crisis. Families like that of Nyabuot Reat Kuor, a mother…

French nuclear fuel company, Orano, has opened international arbitration proceedings against Niger. The move follows several months of unsuccessful attempts at mediation and conciliation after Niamey in June withdrew the licence of Orano’s…

The United Nations Security Council has voted to extend the mandate for a long-running U.N. peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo for another year. This follows further delaying an agreed withdrawal from the eastern…

Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi has replaced the armed forces chief and several other top military officers in a major reshuffle amid the ongoing fight against rebels in the country's eastern region, state media announced. The Chief…

West Africa’s regional bloc ECOWAS approved Sunday an exit timeline for three coup-hit nations after a nearly yearlong process of mediation to avert the unprecedented disintegration of the grouping. In a first in the 15-nation bloc’s…

More than 40 million people are now struggling to feed themselves across West and Central Africa with that number set to rise to 52 million by the middle of next year, the United Nations food agency said Friday. According to a new report…

The importance of access to health services for all Somalis came under the spotlight this week at an event in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, to mark the Universal Health Coverage Day (UHCD). “Achieving universal health coverage and…

The outbreak of Marburg Virus Disease was declared over today by the Government of Rwanda with no new cases reported over the last 42 days after the last patient tested negative for the virus twice, as per the usual protocol for ending…

Four French nationals held in Burkina Faso for a year have been released following mediation from Morocco, France and Morocco said on Thursday, resolving a diplomatic row over their detention. The head of France's foreign intelligence…

A court in Guinea has sentenced former Defence Minister Mohamed Diané to five years in prison for corruption, illicit enrichment, embezzlement, and money laundering. Diané, who served under ex-President Alpha Condé from 2015 to 2021, must…