By majority, the trial chamber rejected all reasons given by the prosecution in its appeal against the acquittal, and ordered the immediate release of the 73-year-old Laurent ... Read more »

Former president Laurent Gbagbo and Charles Blé Goudé have been acquited of all charges of crimes against humanity allegedly committed in Côte d'Ivoire in 2010 ... Read more »

A new report from the World Bank Group warns that climate change will interrupt our world as we know it. The report on strategies for adapting to climate chang Read more »

More than 600 people have fallen ill with the Ebola virus, and at least 368 people have died in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The DRC is where Ebola was first discovered in ... Read more »

Over a million people have been internally displaced or made refugees by years of inter-communal fighting. More than a quarter million of them are living in neighbouring Cameroon. Read more »

With noncommunicable diseases burdening many countries across the globe, governments continue to seek solutions and develop plans of action to address the diseases. A delegation ... Read more »

Situated in Harare, the Edith Opperman clinic also known as Mbare Poly, offers adolescents with free counselling on topics like HIV prevention, treatment, care and support and as ... Read more »

Ambassador Abukar Dahir Osma, the country's UN envoy has urged the United Nations not to interfere in Somalia's internal affairs,  days after the government expelled the UN's ... Read more »

As of mid-December there have been more than 500 cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo, of which two-thirds are women. In Beni - one of the hardest hit areas - it's the women ... Read more »

Amnesty International and the army have been at loggerheads for reports the organisation issued on the military interventions against Boko Haram and its actions against civilians ... Read more »