ON WORLD FOOD DAY, 350,000 PEOPLE IN CHAD FACE STARVATION

Eight years ago, Boko Haram militants crossed the border from Nigeria and launched their first attacks in Chad, in the Lake Region... READ MORE›

GOVERNMENT INTERNET SHUTDOWNS COST AFRICA DEAR

The report said that various internet shutdowns had been in place in sub-Saharan Africa on 236 days since 2015... READ MORE›

FOLLOW DAILY DIGITAL NEWS

Twitter: Follow @ddigitalnews

8 PEOPLE HAVE SAME WEALTH AS WORLD'S POOREST HALF

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›

HUGE RISE IN HOSPITAL BEDS IN ENGLAND TAKEN UP BY PEOPLE WITH MALNUTRITION

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›

HUNGER EATS AWAY AT VENEZUELA'S SOUL AS ITS PEOPLE STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE

Former foreign minister and top aide Delcy Rodriguez has denied the country has a food crisis, denouncing the blackmail of hunger ... READ MORE›

WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION DECLARES SRI LANKA MALARIA-FREE

The World Health Organisation has certified that Sri Lanka is a malaria-free nation, in what it called a truly remarkable achievement... READ MORE›

'ALARM BELLS WE CANNOT IGNORE': WORLD HUNGER RISING FOR FIRST TIME THIS CENTURY

UN agencies warn conflict and climate change are undermining food security, causing chronic undernourishment and threatening to reverse years of progress... READ MORE›

WORLD WIDE WEB? MAP RESIZES COUNTRIES BY NUMBER OF INTERNET USERS

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›

WORLD'S FIRST MALARIA VACCINE APPROVED AFTER 30 YEARS OF TRIALS

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›

WEAK POWER GRIDS IN AFRICA STUNT ECONOMIES AND FIRE UP TEMPERS

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›

CHAMPIONING ENVIRONMENT FRANCIS TAKES AIM AT GLOBAL CAPITALISM

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›

RUSSIA SAYS NATO TURNING UKRAINE INTO FRONT LINE OF CONFRONTATION

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›

DOZENS OF COUNTRIES POISED TO DRIVE OUT MALARIA BY 2020

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›

MEASLES VACCINATION RATES IN PARTS OF AFRICA SURPASS THOSE IN NORTH AMERICA

In 2000, WHO reported that 60 of the 777,000 measles deaths worldwide occurred in occurred in sub-Saharan Africa... READ MORE›

UN SAYS WORLD FACES WORST HUMANITARIAN CRISIS SINCE 1945 WITH TENS OF MILLIONS STARVING

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›

MILLIONS OF PEOPLE FACE ACUTE HUNGER IN DRC

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›

THE EFFECTS OF OBAMAS PRESIDENCY IN AFRICA READERS OPINIONS

I would like President Obama to encourage our African presidents to build more schools and pay teachers well... READ MORE›

WHY MOSQUITOES SEEM TO BITE SOME PEOPLE MORE

But most of this research uses only one mosquito species... READ MORE›

OBAMAS POWER AFRICA PROJECT IS OFF TO A SPUTTERING START

Nigerian officials say that while they welcome the Power Africa initiative, they have only had conversations about potential projects... READ MORE›

GRAPHIC WHERE PEOPLE ARE LIVING IN THE DARK

In sub-Saharan Africa, the urban electrification rate is 60 percent, compared with only 14 percent in rural areas... READ MORE›

DRIVE TO GET CHILDREN BACK TO SCHOOL FAILING WORLDWIDE

Across all age groups, sub-Saharan Africa remains the region with the worst out-of-school rates... READ MORE›

MORE THAN 60 MILLION PEOPLE DISPLACED BY WAR IN 2015

The United Nations asks the world to turn its attention Saturday to people displaced by war conflict and other crises... READ MORE›

WHAT'S THE BEST BIT OF THE UN? NO 3

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›

REFUGEE CRISIS: WHAT WILL THE TRUE COST OF TAKING SYRIA'S DISPLACED BE?

Once the cost of taking, say, 10,000 Syrian refugees is properly understood, we could see a political backlash against it... READ MORE›

SWITZERLAND REPLACES DENMARK AS THE WORLD'S HAPPIEST COUNTRY

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›

IS THIS FORMULA THE SECRET TO ENDING MALARIA?

Prof. Adrian Hill is designing a new kind of vaccine against malaria that could one day help eliminate the disease.... READ MORE›

FIFTH OF DEVELOPING WORLD CHILDREN IN EXTREME POVERTY

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›

UN CONFIRMS REPORTS OF STARVATION AS AID REACHES BESIEGED MADAYA

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

As Ebola fears return, Congo-Brazzaville steps up fight against illegal bushmeat... READ MORE›

PROGRESS ON MALARIA DEATHS AT RISK WITHOUT BIG BOOST IN FUNDING, UN WARNS

It calls for a 40 percent reduction in malaria cases between 2015 and 2020... READ MORE›

AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT URGED TO REVERSE AFRICA FOREIGN AID CUTS

At the Australian National University the number of African students on scholarships has shrunk from 20 to 2... READ MORE›