Eight years ago, Boko Haram militants crossed the border from Nigeria and launched their first attacks in Chad, in the Lake Region... READ MORE›
The report said that various internet shutdowns had been in place in sub-Saharan Africa on 236 days since 2015... READ MORE›
Income inequality is so now lopsided that eight men now own the same amount of wealth as the poorest half of the world... READ MORE›
Official figures reveal that people with malnutrition accounted for 184,528 hospital bed days last year, a huge rise on 65,048 in 2006-07... READ MORE›
Former foreign minister and top aide Delcy Rodriguez has denied the country has a food crisis, denouncing the blackmail of hunger ... READ MORE›
The World Health Organisation has certified that Sri Lanka is a malaria-free nation, in what it called a truly remarkable achievement... READ MORE›
UN agencies warn conflict and climate change are undermining food security, causing chronic undernourishment and threatening to reverse years of progress... READ MORE›
In 2011, Qatar and South Korea were the only countries outside Europe and North America in the group of countries with highest internet penetration... READ MORE›
Sir Andrew Witty, CEO of GSK, said Today's scientific opinion represents a further important step towards making available for young children the world's first malaria vaccine... READ MORE›
The reasons for Indian mothers' relatively poor health are many, including a culture that discriminates against them... READ MORE›
South Africa, which has the continent's only nuclear power plant, has around half of sub-Saharan Africa's power generating capacity, roughly 44 gigawatts... READ MORE›
Francis' embrace of the issue of climate change, and his broader critique of global capitalism, stem from his signature economic concern eradicating poverty... READ MORE›
Haitian politics are still a mess and poverty is deep-rooted, but the economy is rising, more children are going to school and health is improving... READ MORE›
Hopes of eliminating malaria from more than 30 countries with a total population of 2 billion have risen following the successful removal of the disease from Sri Lanka... READ MORE›
In 2000, WHO reported that 60 of the 777,000 measles deaths worldwide occurred in occurred in sub-Saharan Africa... READ MORE›
More than 20 million people are facing famine and starvation in Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia and Nigeria, with the UN warning an urgent aid injection is needed... READ MORE›
One in 10 people living in rural areas suffers from acute hunger, while chronic malnutrition affects 43 per cent of children under five years, the FAO report said... READ MORE›
I would like President Obama to encourage our African presidents to build more schools and pay teachers well... READ MORE›
But most of this research uses only one mosquito species... READ MORE›
Nigerian officials say that while they welcome the Power Africa initiative, they have only had conversations about potential projects... READ MORE›
In sub-Saharan Africa, the urban electrification rate is 60 percent, compared with only 14 percent in rural areas... READ MORE›
Across all age groups, sub-Saharan Africa remains the region with the worst out-of-school rates... READ MORE›
The United Nations asks the world to turn its attention Saturday to people displaced by war conflict and other crises... READ MORE›
The world's largest humanitarian agency delivers food and other relief supplies to about 80 million people in more than 80 countries every year... READ MORE›
Once the cost of taking, say, 10,000 Syrian refugees is properly understood, we could see a political backlash against it... READ MORE›
According to the third World Happiness Report compiled by the United Nations' Sustainable Development Solutions Network SDSN, the European nation ranks as the world's happiest nation... READ MORE›
Prof. Adrian Hill is designing a new kind of vaccine against malaria that could one day help eliminate the disease.... READ MORE›
Nearly a fifth of children in developing countries are living in extreme poverty, the World Bank and the UN's children's agency say... READ MORE›
US ambassador Samantha Power also had strong words about Madaya, slamming the grotesque starve-or-surrender tactics the Syrian regime is using right now against its own people ... READ MORE›
As Ebola fears return, Congo-Brazzaville steps up fight against illegal bushmeat... READ MORE›
It calls for a 40 percent reduction in malaria cases between 2015 and 2020... READ MORE›
At the Australian National University the number of African students on scholarships has shrunk from 20 to 2... READ MORE›
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