UN Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Bintou Keita has stressed that the conflict can only have a political solution, and urged the international community to ... Read more »
A ministerial committee is examining the circumstances surrounding the death of 26 teenage girls and women whose bodies were found on a Spanish ship in the Mediterranean Sea. ... Read more »
Protests took place outside Libyan embassies in several African capital cities while politicians are demanding an investigation and the prosecution of those involved. Read more »
The government's intervention follows a UN report that the immigrants, most of them from West Africa, are being sold openly in modern-day slave markets in Libya. They are ... Read more »
Today, humanitarians and humanitarianism are needed more than ever before, but to remain relevant, there must be changes. The courage to question old certainties, the vision to ... Read more »
Two thousand kits from the United Kingdom to provide shelter for 140,000 people have started arriving in Somalia as drought-related displacements continue at an alarming ... Read more »
The UN refugee agency estimates that 5,000 people have fled to southeastern Nigeria following a crackdown against protesters in the Anglophone community. Read more »
The UN says the number of people forcibly displaced from their homes has more than doubled in the past two years with almost 430,000 displaced in the past three months. ... Read more »
The Nigerian embassy in Washington, DC - arguably one of the country's key diplomatic outposts - has an ambassador at the helm for the first time in two years - Hassan Mohammed ... Read more »
Somaliland, a semi-autonomous region in the Horn of Africa, has displaced thousands of ethnic Oromos, according to Negeri Lencho, Ethiopia's information minister. The conflicts are ... Read more »
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