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Despite help from relatives abroad, Zimbabwe's elderly people are struggling to cope with food shortages and high transport costs, brought on by an...

At least 43,000 refugees returned to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between January and October, with another 310,000 still in neighbouring...

Concern is mounting about the humanitarian situation and human rights in Ethiopia’s Somali region, which threatens to affect 1.8 million people...

Unable to get their hands on scarce and often expensive essentials, Zimbabweans are settling for food items such as cooking oil that are cheap,...

Tensions between Somalia's self-declared republic of Somaliland and the autonomous region of Puntland have risen, prompting some aid workers to...

Locust plagues decimate everything in their path. Related to grasshoppers these insects are one of the most destructive pests on earth. ...

A deadly cholera epidemic has broken out in several regions of Sierra Leone. Since the first week of September at least 523 people have been...

The government and the army in Guinea Bissau are implicated in drug trafficking according to the latest report on Guinea Bissau by the UN...

Thousands of lives are still disrupted, despite an improvement in the security situation in the western district of Mt Elgon, along the Kenya-Uganda...

The Congolese President, Denis Sassou Nguesso, has called on former rebel leader Frédéric Bintsangou, alias Pasteur Ntoumi, to return to Brazzaville...