More than two million people in arid and semi-arid counties are facing crisis-level hunger as the failed short rains push ...

Israel handed over the bodies of 15 Palestinians on Wednesday, a day after Hamas returned the remains of an Israeli hostage.

Tunisia freed prominent lawyer Sonia Dahmani, a vocal critic of President Kais Saied, on Thursday after a year and a half in ...

Africa’s most populous nation was already facing one of the world’s biggest hunger crises. It’s getting much worse.

Lydia Polgreen speaks to the former New York Times bureau chief Howard W. French about the cost of not engaging with Africa. By Howard W. French and Lydia Polgreen Produced by Derek Arthur Africa is ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has repeated his intention not to attend the upcoming G20 summit in South Africa and said that the host nation should not even be in the organization—an economic forum of ...

Al-Fashir taken by paramilitary force late last month Food supplies had been cut off during long siege UN-backed monitor first confirmed famine in Darfur last year Nov 3 (Reuters) - A global hunger ...

Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court said Monday they are taking steps to preserve evidence from Sudan's Darfur region of possible war crimes carried out by a paramilitary force after it ...

For a dose of hope about the future of rainforests, go to Inganda in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A nine-hour drive from the nearest town, this village deep in the Congo basin is home to a mix of ...

Carnegie Mellon University provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. I lead a research team that compiles the Colpus Dataset of coup types and characteristics and have written on the ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — After a newspaper reported in 1897 that the great American writer Mark Twain had died, a bemused -- but very much alive -- Twain famously quipped: "the report of my death ...

Bob Geldof has hit out at accusations he has a “white saviour complex” due to his charity work in Africa with Live Aid and Band Aid. The 73-year-old Irish musician and activist has found himself ...