A deserted shop in the devastated Mozambican city of Beira has become a place of refuge for dozens of families displaced by a deadly cyclone, which has caused flooding and rendered many areas inaccessible. More than 1,000 are feared to have died in the cyclone after it smashed into Mozambique last week, while scores were also killed in neig ...

Five members of Burkina Faso 39;s security forces were killed in roadside bomb attacks in the east of the country at the weekend, officials said on Monday. A policeman and a soldier were killed on Saturday when their vehicle struck an improvised explosive device (IED) in Kompienga, a security official said. Late Sunday, three soldiers ...

Boeing and US aviation regulators are coming under intense scrutiny over the certification of the 737 MAX aircraft after news that two recent crashes of share similarities. On March 11, just a day after the Ethiopia crash left 157 dead, a grand jury in Washington issued a subpoena to at least one person involved in the plane 39;s certifica ...

Civil society and indigenous forest communities have expressed concerns over the accelerating decline of forests in African countries, and called on drastic measures to reverse the trend. Around 100 participants from 20 forest-dependent countries across Africa are meeting on the sidelines of the UN ldquo;African climate week rdquo; to share exp ...

Boeing said Monday that the flight stabilization system under scrutiny following two deadly 737 MAX plane crashes, met all US regulations. The 737 MAX was certified in accordance with the identical Federal Aviation Administration requirements and processes that have governed certification of all previous new airplanes and derivatives, Boe ...

A UN report released Monday showed an increase in allegations of sexual abuse and exploitation by staff working in UN agencies and their partner organizations. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in an annual report however there was a drop in cases of rape and exploitation involving UN peacekeepers, down to 54 in 2018 from 62 the pr ...

A French court on Monday handed Congolese singer Koffi Olomide a two-year suspended prison sentence for the statutory rape of one of his former dancers when she was 15. Olomide went on trial after four former dancers claimed he sexually assaulted them several times between 2002 and 2006. The assaults allegedly happened in the Democratic Rep ...

Major oil producers led by Saudi Arabia agreed Monday to keep working together to prop up crude prices, but said they would decide only in June on whether to extend production cuts. Meeting in Azerbaijan 39;s capital Baku, members of the OPEC alliance said they would continue coordinating efforts to stabilise the oil market through prod ...

Was the United States complacent in its certification of the Boeing 737 MAX? That 39;s a question everyone is asking after Addis Ababa said flight recorded data showed clear similarities between last week 39;s Ethiopian Airlines crash and that of Indonesia 39;s Lion Air five months earlier. In service since May 2017, the 737 MAX 8, ...