President Donald Trump 39;s controversial choice to lead the World Bank could spark a revolt against US dominance of the institution and spur other members to unite behind an alternate candidate. The White House has confirmed to fellow Group of Seven nations that Trump will nominate US Treasury official David Malpass, a person familiar wit ...

The government of the Central African Republic has inked a new peace deal with 14 armed groups, in a bid to end years-long fighting that has left thousands of people dead. The accord was initialled by President Faustin Archange Touadera for the CAR government and representatives of militias which control most of the country. It will be ...

Applications for the BBC World News Komla Dumor Award is open until 23.59GMT 26th March 2019 5th February 2018 - The BBC has begun the search for the fifth BBC World News Komla Dumor Award. Following a launch event in Lagos today, journalists from across the continent are invited to apply for the prestigious prize, which aims ...

A summit of five nations that have joined forces to fight jihadism in the Sahel got under way on Tuesday, a day after a fresh terror attack in the region claimed 14 lives. Leaders of the so-called G5 Sahel -- Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger -- gathered in the Burkinabe capital of Ouagadougou. Their one-day meeting aims at ...

Patrice Carteron on Sunday begins a quest to become only the third coach to win the CAF Champions League and the second-tier CAF Confederation Cup. Tunisian Faouzi Benzarti and Ghanaian Cecil Jones Attuquayefio achieved the feat and Frenchman Carteron led Congolese club TP Mazembe to the 2015 Champions League title. The 48-year-old former def ...

UN Security Council ambassadors will travel to Guinea-Bissau this month to press for peaceful elections that could pave the way to a lifting of international sanctions, the council president said Friday. The West African country has been under UN sanctions since 2012 when military officers staged a coup just two weeks before elections, the lates ...

The number of people who died when two migrant boats foundered after setting sail from Djibouti to Yemen has risen to 58, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Friday. The overloaded boats went down on Tuesday about half an hour after setting sail from Djibouti's northeastern coastline. Speaking to AFP, Lalini Veerassamy, ...

Washington has imposed visa restrictions on Ghana following a row over the deportation of Ghanaians staying illegally in the United States. The move, which goes into effect on February 4, will also affect government employees and politicians. US officials have accused the West African country of refusing to accept the return of Ghanian ...

The UN Security Council has paved the way for possibly easing the arms embargo on the Central African Republic (CAR). A French-drafted resolution would enable the supply of weapons to government forces fighting militia groups who control large swathes of the country. The council adopted the draft of the resolution calling for a review of the arm ...

A delegation of United Nations (UN) Security Council experts has been sent to Kinshasa to assess the Council 39;s resolutions on DR Congo where a new opposition president has taken office, a UN spokeswoman said Thursday. Experts from seven of the Council 39;s 15 member states began their evaluation work on Monday , said Florence M ...

A charity ship carrying 47 rescued migrants docked in the Sicilian port of Catania Thursday, where the crew feared legal action as Italy 39;s far-right interior minister tries to stop new arrivals. The Dutch-flagged Sea Watch 3, which had been waiting off the coast of Sicily with people it pulled to safety in the Mediterranean on Ja ...

The death toll from the sinking of two boats carrying migrants to Yemen from Djibouti rose to 52 on Thursday, the UN migration agency said, appealing to regional leaders to take action to stop such tragedies. Rescuers working in Djibouti's northeastern Obock region continued to recover bodies on the Horn of Africa nation's coast following the ca ...

Sub-Saharan Countries and UNESCO Lead Largest Regional Initiative for Comprehensive Sexuality Education Since 2010, UNESCO and UN partners have been supporting the efforts of governments in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to change the narrative for adolescents and young people through Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE). Following the successful ...

The death toll after two migrant boats sank in heavy seas off the coast of Djibouti has risen to 43, the UN migration agency said on Wednesday, with scores still feared missing. Search and rescue teams met with grim scenes of bodies strewn across the beach at Obock, a port town down the coast from Godaria where the vessels had set sail on the Ho ...

Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Wednesday 47 rescued migrants aboard the German charity Sea Watch vessel could finally disembark after Italy and six other countries agreed to take them in. France, Germany, Malta, Portugal, Romania and Luxembourg have all now offered to accept some of the migrants who have been stuck on the Sea Watch 3 vess ...

The death toll from the sinking of two migrant boats off the coast of Djibouti has risen to 31, the UN migration agency said on Wednesday, with scores still feared missing. Two vessels carrying migrants departed from Godaria on the Horn of Africa nation's northeast coast on Tuesday morning, but sank in heavy seas 30 minutes into the journey, acc ...

The death toll after two migrant boats sank in heavy seas off the coast of Djibouti has risen to 38, the UN migration agency said on Wednesday, with scores still feared missing. Search and rescue teams met with grim scenes of bodies strewn across the beach at Obock, a port town down the coast from Godaria where the vessels had set sail on the Ho ...

The death toll from the sinking of two migrant boats off the coast of Djibouti rose to 28 on Wednesday, with perhaps 130 more still missing. Two vessels carrying migrants departed from Godaria on the Horn of Africa nation 39;s northeast coast on Tuesday morning but sank in heavy seas 30 minutes into the journey, according to the Internatio ...

The death toll from the sinking of two migrant boats off the coast of Djibouti rose to 28 on Wednesday, the UN migration agency said. Twenty-three bodies were recovered this morning and the coast guard continues (its) search, Lalini Veerassamy, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) chief of mission in Djibouti told AFP, a day afte ...

Five people are dead and about 130 missing off the coast of Djibouti after two boats carrying migrants capsized, the UN migration agency said on Tuesday. The incident occurred about 30 minutes after the overloaded boats set off in heavy seas from Godoria on the Horn of Africa nation's northeast coastline, according to the International Organisat ...