Each year, the world comes together in a campaign to speak out on one topic: ending violence against women and girls. Sixteen Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence begins on 25 November, which is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and runs through Human Rights Day on 10 December. Organized by ...

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has cut the maximum jail term for violating the country 39;s state of emergency from 10 years to six months as protesters staged rallies against his rule Thursday. Deadly protests have rocked Sudan since December, and Bashir imposed a nationwide state of emergency on February 22 to quell the demonstrations ...

A cyclone that ravaged three southern African countries last week has killed at least 350 people, affected more than 1.7 million others and left 15,000 people still stranded by floods, according to estimates Thursday. As the toll surged from the region 39;s biggest storm in years, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced plans to tack ...

The world can eradicate tuberculosis by 2045 if the fight against the killer disease is properly funded, an international team of experts said Wednesday. Warning of the immense economic and social costs of inaction, they said that better screening, treatments and public awareness were needed to reduce the more than 10 million cases recorded ...

Guinean club Horoya, who reacted to reaching the CAF Champions League knockout phase by dumping French coach Patrice Neveu, were drawn against Moroccans Wydad Casablanca in the quarter-finals Wednesday. The Conakry club have offered no explanation for the shock move after widely experienced Neveu masterminded a largely impressive group camp ...

The United Nations said Wednesday it will be seeking a large amount of funding from member-states to help deal with the aftermath of Tropical Cyclone Idai. This may be one of the worst natural disasters to hit southern Africa in living memory and so we will need to do quite a lot, UN spokesman Farhan Haq told reporters at UN headquarter ...

The NBA and YouTube announced Wednesday the launch of a channel for sub-Saharan Africa that will broadcast live games every week and showcase African players 39; impact on the NBA. NBA Africa YouTube 39;s first live game broadcasts will take place Sunday with Boston at Charlotte followed by the Los Angeles Clippers at New York. Two li ...

Perched on the terraces of a sports stadium, scores of marooned people stare down at a basketball court filled with dirty brown water. Five days after a vicious tropical storm tore through their neighbourhood in Buzi, central Mozambique, they remain trapped by flood water. http://cdn.modernghana.com/images/content/afp people ...

Pope Francis expressed his pain Wednesday at the devastation wrought by Cyclone Idai in southern Africa and called for comfort and support for victims of the disaster. Great floods have sown grief and devastation in various regions of Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi, he said, addressing thousands of the faithful in Saint Peter 39;s Squ ...

Highly sophisticated criminal gangs in Asia are making it more difficult for African authorities to combat rhino horn trafficking, with high demand in Vietnam and China from consumers willing to pay astronomical prices driving the poaching crisis. Seven Chinese nationals are facing trial in the northern resort town of Hwange, in Zimbabwe. T ...

Snake antivenoms have been around for 125 years, are effective and can be produced cheaply at scale. Yet Africa, with its abundance of deadly snakes, has an alarming shortage of the life-saving medicine. Experts and campaigners blame a combination of weak production capacity, feeble policy and oversight, high prices and a general lack of co ...

On June 15, 2015, four-year-old Chepchirchir Kiplagat 39;s life changed forever. Bitten by a snake as she slept, she permanently lost the use of the right side of her body. Sleeping beside her on a mattress on the floor of their modest, mud-walled home, Chepchirchir 39;s two-year-old sister Scholar was also bitten. She did not survive ...

Guinea-Bissau 39;s historic ruling party on Monday signed a deal to form a coalition government after falling just short of a majority in parliamentary elections last week, political figures said. According to the National Election Commission, the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) won 47 of parliament 39; ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...