Congo races to contain Ebola after gold miner contaminates several in Goma
Congolese authorities were racing to contain an Ebola epidemic on Thursday, after a gold miner with a large family contaminated several people in the east’s
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Sorry end for Africans on ‘education island’
By Esra Aygin The body of a 33-year-old Nigerian student, who had been missing since July 1, was found in the boot of a car
Living in air-polluted Nicosia will cost residents on average a year of their lives
By Lizzy Ioannidou AN AVERAGE of one year is cut from the lives of every Nicosia resident due to high levels of air pollution, which
Why are African leaders pushing for population growth?
By Gwynne Dyer I was one of five children, so I am in an invidious position when I write about population growth. That was quite
Chinese leader begins Africa visit as US interest in continent wanes
Chinese President Xi Jinping has arrived in Africa on a four-nation visit seeking deeper military and economic ties. His visit comes as the US, the
‘Vicious cycle’ as conflict uproots millions in Africa
Violence and conflict in sub-Saharan Africa forced 15,000 people from their homes every day in 2017, double the previous year’s figure, an international monitoring centre
Illegal gold miners invade Grace Mugabe’s farm amid legal dispute
A farm owned by Robert Mugabe’s wife Grace is at the centre of a legal dispute after hundreds of illegal gold miners invaded parts of
Israel says to send 16,000 African migrants to Western countries
Israel said on Monday it has cancelled a plan to deport African migrants to Africa and reached an agreement with the UN refugee agency to send
Hunger brings death to Congo’s Kasai after guns fall silent
The guns have fallen silent in the Congolese town of Mwene Ditu, but each day starving children arrive at the small hospital there battling
Risk of mass starvation rapidly rising in Africa, Yemen – UN
The risk of mass starvation in four countries – north-east Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen -is rapidly rising due to drought and conflict, the
Famine is back, but why always Africa?
For the first time in six years, there is famine in the world: a real, United Nations-declared famine, with more than 30 per cent of
German ministry wants migrants returned to Africa – report
The German Interior Ministry wants to stop migrants ever reaching Europe’s Mediterranean coast by picking them up at sea and returning them to Africa, the
Aids is not over
FOUR years ago optimism was high that Aids was in retreat, and could ultimately be eradicated. Back then the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/
African elephant population tumbles due to poaching
By Ed Stoddard Africa’s elephant population fell around 20 percent between 2006 and 2015 because of a surge in ivory poaching, the International Union for
Benin burning waste explosion kills two people
An explosion at a waste burning site in Benin killed two people and injured at least 60, the health ministry said on Friday. The blast
Migrants tell of horrors of voyage in Italy media campaign
Italy launched an internet, TV and radio campaign on Thursday to discourage Africans from setting out on the often deadly voyage to Europe, including real
The shoes that grow for the children who need them
Two Cypriot friends are personally delivering 60 pairs of rather special shoes to a Tanzanian school Thirty-two-year-old Giorgos Tsikkos and 30-year-old Socrates Rossides arrived in
South Sudan is not Africa
THIS is not an article on South Sudan, which is just as well because the conflicts there are almost fractal in their complexity. The mini-war
Female genital mutilation is a men’s issue, say African activists
Female genital mutilation (FGM) will never end until men also throw their weight behind efforts to eradicate the potentially deadly practice, says Nigerian law student
Germany seeks to limit migration from North Africa
By Caroline Copley and Michael Nienaber Germany wants to limit migration from North Africa by declaring Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia ‘safe countries’, officials from the