New research reveals that vaccines have saved over 50 million lives in Africa over the last 50 y Read more »
Amnesty International published a report on the situation in Niger that highlighted the devastating consequences of war, on children. In Niger's Tillabé Read more »
Decades of lead mining by Anglo-Americans left the Kabwe community in Zambia gasping for breath, literally and figuratively. The land is choked with lead dust, the air thick with ... Read more »
Gambia, like many of its West African neighbours, has embraced the lucrative production of fishmeal. But the booming aquaculture industry, widely hailed by conservationists as the ... Read more »
Dr. Joseph C Kennedy, co-founder and longtime director of International Development and vice president of Africare, who died in December, is remembered for his dedication to ... Read more »
The new requirements for international adoptions reportedly include the creation of a central adoption authority, stricter approval processes and providing specific adoption ... Read more »
In a significant development, the Johannesburg High Court has granted permission to appeal an earlier ruling that denied class action certification for 140,000 women and chil Read more »
The proposed sale of Shell's onshore oil business in the Niger Delta region of southern Nigeria to Renaissance Africa Energy raises serious concerns about worsening human rights ... Read more »
The latest Human Rights Watch report accuses Malian armed forces and Wagner Group mercenaries of committing war crimes against civilians in central and northern Mali. Read more »
Six months after catastrophic floods in Derna, Libya, resulted in the death of at least 4,352 people and displaced thousands, Amnesty International reports a lack of accountability ... Read more »
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