At least 17 children dead and 70 missing in a fire at a school in Kenya
At least 17 children have died in a fire at a school in central Kenya on Friday, a police spokesman ...
Tag: Africa
$600 million plan to respond to monkeypox outbreak in Africa
The estimated budget for the six-month plan is about $600 million, with 55 percent allocated to responding to the monkeypox ...
Torrential rains fueled by the climate crisis leave more than 500 dead and two million homeless in the Sahel
The torrential rains that have hit the Sahel since the end of June have caused more than 550 deaths, more ...
Climate change costs Africa 5% of its GDP
Nairobi (Agencies) The effects of global warming are costing African countries up to 5% of their economic output, Simon Steele, ...
China pledges $50 billion in financing for projects in Africa over the next three years
China and Africa will implement 30 infrastructure connectivity projects, Xi said at the opening ceremony of the Forum on China-Africa ...
Namibia to cull 723 elephants, zebras and buffalo to feed drought-stricken population
The Namibian government announced on August 26 a plan to cull 723 wild animals, including 300 zebras, 83 elephants and ...
At least 129 dead and 59 injured in attempted escape from Congo’s largest prison
An attempted escape from Makala prison, the largest in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), ended early Monday morning with ...
Zimbabwe has conquered cholera, but lack of clean water and sanitation persists
As Zimbabwe celebrates the end of the cholera outbreak that has claimed more than 700 lives since February 2023, Gerald ...
The “Yellow House Library” – a local project to get children in a southern Nigerian town back to school
At the new Kpansia market in Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State in southern Nigeria, it is hard not to ...
Heat takes a toll on Africa
Capitals (Agencies) Africa is increasingly suffering from climate change, with many countries having to spend up to 9 percent of ...
