Although the World Health Organisation has continuously warned of the serious health risks associated with FGM, many countries have struggled to end the practice. The Gambian ... Read more »
In northern Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province, an often-overlooked conflict has displaced hundreds of thousands of families, subjecting them to extreme challenges in securin Read more »
The United Nations Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan - which was tasked with aiding the transition from dictatorship to democratic rule - has ended its mandate. But UN ... Read more »
Ethiopia's UN Ambassador has strongly defended his country's agreement with Somaliland (the unrecognized republic north of Somalia) which allows Ethiopian soldiers to access ... Read more »
Leaders from across the continent gathered for the 37th African Union Summit on February 17 to 18 in Addis Ababa. One focus of this year's meeting was the state of education on the ... Read more »
Following a three-nation, five-day visit to west Africa, U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield spoke with AllAfrica's Tami Hultman. From her office at the U.S. Mission to the ... Read more »
The United Nations reports that two of their peacekeepers - Ghanaian and Pakistani - were killed in separate incidents, after clashes in the disputed, oil-rich Abyei regio Read more »
The ruling on Friday by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is a victory for human rights and justice, GroundUp reports. Fifteen of the seven Read more »
The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres has called on African leaders to root out terrorism and violent extremism on the continent. According to Guterres, in just a ... Read more »
The humanitarian situation in Sudan is dire, especially in the central and southern parts of Omd Read more »
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