Kenya’s High Court has put the brakes on a $1.6 billion Kenya-US Health Cooperation Framework, issuing temporary orders after a petition argued the agreement risks allowing the transfer of confidential health data belong
Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on Wednesday signed into law the establishment of the country's first ever National Human Rights Commission.
Decades after thousands of Somali students found refuge and education in Khartoum while their own nation faced sociopolitical challenges, Somalia has opened its doors to Sudanese youth fleeing conflict.
Erdogan praises the Turkish Maarif Foundation for carrying this approach beyond the country’s borders, describing it as “a pioneering model in education diplomacy”.
Dozens of individuals including academics, civil society actors and local political leaders have been detained, says the UN human rights office.
South African authorities must do more to tackle a spate of "xenophobic" protests aimed at blocking access to clinics and hospitals to undocumented foreigners, a court ruled on Thursday.
The US president and far-right commentators are singling out Minnesota’s Somali community, linking isolated fraud cases to terrorism and immigration threats, raising alarm over xenophobia, Islamophobia, and sweeping enfo
Marking the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the ministry says the situation of amputees in Gaza is “shocking,” with 25 percent of all amputation cases involving children who now face permanent disabilitie
Libyan authorities said on Tuesday they would ramp up sending Sub-Saharan African irregular migrants back to their countries, but said Sudanese refugees will be treated as Libyans and allowed to access schools and hospit
Health authorities in DRC on Monday declared an end to the latest outbreak of Ebola, which has caused at least 34 deaths since August.
Authorities say more than 250 initiates have died at so-called initiation schools in the last six years.
France's Cinematheque Francaise said on Friday it would temporarily close over a bedbug infestation.
The Kenya Wildlife Service has rejected claims that a new Ritz-Carlton luxury lodge was blocking a wildebeest migration corridor between Kenya's Maasai Mara reserve and Tanzania's Serengeti National Park.
Twenty-four female students who were kidnapped from their boarding school last week in the country's northwest have been released, the presidency announced on Tuesday.
Karamoja has the least educated children with 76% unable to read or write, also the poorest part of Uganda with 82% living in poverty
Fifty of the more than 300 children snatched by gunmen from a Catholic school in Nigeria have escaped their captors, a Christian group said on Sunday.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says that Africa will pay a "deadly price" for climate change despite having done "very little" to cause it.
The Christian Association of Nigeria said the new number came "after a verification exercise" following the early Friday mass kidnapping.
TİKA says the equipment will enhance teaching and research and also improve the learning environment of medical students.
The authorities order tourism businesses to apply for special licences to let them handle foreign exchange directly with the central bank.
It comes after dozens of "lie-in" protests were held countrywide on Friday in what organisers said was meant to honour the 15 women murdered every day in South Africa.
The latest incident continues a troubling trend that began with Boko Haram's kidnapping of 270 Chibok schoolgirls in 2014.
Nearly a quarter of Somalia’s population is facing acute hunger, with 1.85 million children under five at risk of acute malnutrition, the World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Thursday.
The awards ceremony embraced art, rhythm and identity with artistic performances from different generations.
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