Women giving birth in public healthcare facilities in the West African state of Sierra Leone face demeaning, dangerous, and potentially deadly neglect, abandonment, and abuse by healthcare pr ...

A senior US Administration official has discussed urgent challenges in African and Arab countries at a meeting in Cairo with Arab League Secretary General, Ahmed Aboul Gheit ...

The Chairperson of the African Union (AUC), Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, has appointed Mohamed Idris Farah, currently Senior Adviser to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Relations of Djibout ...

The African Union Commission (AUC) has urged countries in the continent to stop “exporting jobs elsewhere” and rapidly exploit the US$2 ...

A new global report warns that inequality is increasing the world’s vulnerability to pandemics, making them more deadly, more costly and longer lasting – and where you live, could determine how badly ...

Since 1990, the number of people using modern contraception methods has doubled globally but despite this, nearly 224 million women in mainly developing regions still do not use safe and effective fam ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday issued new recommendations aimed at helping countries mitigate the immediate and lasting effects of drastic cuts in international aid, which are disruptin ...

Planning Minister Maropene Ramokgopa, is leading a South African delegation at the Second World Summit for Social Development, which takes place in Doha, Qatar, from Tuesday to Thursday ...

Talks on the creation of a US$800 million environmental support facility to be funded from 1% of the Gross Domestic Product of all African countries to support green conservation has been launched at ...

The launch of the first national communication on climate change was carried out during an official ceremony organised by the Tripoli-based Ministry of Environment of the Government of National Unity ...

Mo Ibrahim Foundation weighs in on Tanzania electoral violence … London, United Kingdom (PANA) – The violence against civilians protesting against the conduct of elections in Tanzania is "unacceptable ...

The African Union, jointly with the government of Botswana, is convening Africa’s first ever summit to discuss measures required to stop the loss of the continent’s wildlife species, threatened by ...