Lawmaker, Lanre Ogunyemi, has called on Nigeria's government to design programmes that will ensure that people living in slums are given a new life. Thousands were left homeless ... Read more »
Nigeria's joint Committee of the Senate and the House of Representatives on Federal Capital Territory assured residents of Mpape settlement that the National Assembly will not ... Read more »
Speaking at a UN high level meeting on the Sahel, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned that political and economic turmoil and a severe food crisis are combining to ... Read more »
A group of U.S. congressmen have called on their UN ambassador to impose sanctions on the Sudanese government for failing to allow aid agencies access to the rebel-held areas of ... Read more »
Hawa Aden Mohamed, the founder and director of the Galkayo Education Centre for Peace and Development in Puntland, north-eastern Somalia, has been declared the winner of the 2012 ... Read more »
The UN refugee agency is working to control an outbreak of Hepatitis E that has killed 16 people across three refugee camps in South Sudan. There have been 23 confirmed cases so ... Read more »
International Affairs State Minister Henry Okello Oryem has appealed for assistance to support more than 114,000 refugees, who have fled war-torn DR Congo. Read more »
Saharawi youth in the occupied city of Smara have launched a hunger strike to demonstrate against policies of exclusion, marginalization and impoverishment perpetuated by Moroccan ... Read more »
Defence ministers from the 14 member states of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region have agreed to send a neutral force into eastern DR Congo within three months ... Read more »
The Director of External Relations at the Parliament of Zimbabwe, Godfrey Chipare, has expressed the country's suppor for the Saharawi people. Read more »
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