The United Nations has issued a stark warning that millions of people in five crisis-stricken countries are either facing famine or are one step away from it, as global hunger continues to worsen.

The increasing cost of living is the most important problem that young Nigerians say their government must address, followed by unemployment, crime and security, poverty, management of the economy, ...

President Yoweri Museveni has assented to the controversial Uganda Peoples' Defence Forces (Amendment) Act, 2025, which grants military courts the power to try civilians. In May this year, Members of ...

Tuareg associations in Mali and Burkina Faso have filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court against their nations' armies and the Russian paramilitary group, Africa Corps.

President Museveni has enacted the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) Amendment Bill 2025, expanding military courts' authority to try civilians under specified circumstances.

Leaders of some of the world's biggest economic powers have gathered in the Canadian Rockies for a Group of Seven summit, overshadowed by an escalating conflict between Israel and Iran as well as U.S.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned the killing of over 200 Nigerians including children in Benue State, alleging that the president has not shown the desired seriousness and concern ...

The National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA) has flagged more than 10,000 national identification cards during the ongoing mass renewal and registration exercise, citing ...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has called for an urgent overhaul of Nigeria's security framework through constitutional reform, declaring that the establishment of state police is now a necessity given ...

Patients are being treated at old church buildings because the clinic has been closed since 2022 for renovations ...

Once again, Benue State has been plunged into mourning. In what can only be described as a coordinated onslaught on defenceless communities, gunmen widely believed to be armed herders launched fresh ...

Sixteen metric tonnes of food are dropped over the town of Nasir, in South Sudan's Upper Nile state, on 9 June 2025. The town was recaptured by government forces from a local militia in April. (Joseph ...