Africa, World

Marauding elephants in northern Uganda have added to the challenges faced by civilians trying to rebuild their lives in the wake of 20 years of civil...

The detention of two activists from the Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) has been extended until Friday. A bail hearing in the case was held on Tuesday...

On both occasions when Mary Atieno* gave birth in her home district of Suba, western Kenya, she knew that going to one of the health centres would be...

Isselmou Ould Abdelkader, an independent researcher and former minister, was arrested on October 21, 2008 in Nouakchott, by members of the combined...

COTE D'IVOIRE: Election board suspends voter registration ABIDJAN Côte d’Ivoire’s electoral commission on 23 October suspended for two days the...

African governments are failing to make proper use of local Red Cross and Red Crescent societies, despite their capacity to provide much-needed broad...

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has launched a nutritional feeding programme at the main prison in Abidjan after the incidence of...

Gambian women assured of Gov’t support Alhaji Dr. Yahya Jammeh, the President of the Republic of The Gambia, has assured Gambian women of his...

Members of the , National Assembly, on Wednesday, unanimously passed the National Disaster Management Bill 2008, at their third annual parliamentary...

Reports reaching the Daily Observer indicate that Samba Bah, the former secretary of state for the Interior, who also served at one time as the...