In Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa producer, the industry is facing limbo as prices on the global market plummet, leaving workers struggling to make a living.
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Poets, musicians and painters flocked to the the city of Beni for the fourth edition of the Tumaini festival. In a city scarred by violence, they are calling for peace across the whole country.
After more than two years of conflict, Sudan is facing a deepening energy crisis as the country’s oil production and refining capacity collapse. Fighting has forced the shutdown of major oil fields and refineries, leaving production severely disrupted ...
After the Sudanese army pushed the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces out of Khartoum, business is slowly returning to the city's central market. In other parts of the country, the conflict rages on.
A tragic road crash south of Johannesburg has claimed the lives of thirteen schoolchildren.
Police say a minibus transporting pupils to school collided with a truck near the industrial city of Vanderbijlpark, about sixty kilometers from Johannesburg.
Across western Kenya, a group of female motorcycle riders known as the Boda Girls are helping bridge a critical gap in maternal health care. Trained not only in motorcycle riding but also in basic maternal health and patient care, many of the women are...
Benin's population voted for its next National Assembly (parliament) on 11 January. The results of the elections were announced Saturday evening: the government-affiliated parties got all seats, while the main opposition party failed to get past the 20...
South Africa has declared a national disaster over torrential rains and floods that have killed at least 30 people in the country's north, damaged thousands of homes and washed away roads and bridges.
In Minneapolis, fear of being arrested by agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has left businesses closed and shops without customers. The Somali community is particularly afraid after having repeatedly been targeted by US president Do...
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk is touring Sudan, meeting families displaced by the country’s ongoing conflict in his first official visit since November 2022.
