Uganda will need to increase its education budget by a staggering 440 percent if it is to provide quality education for its fast-growing population and meet its 2040 development targets, a new report ...

Editorial - On Monday, July 7, 2025, a familiar pattern played out across Nairobi and several towns in Kenya: closed shops, empty roads, and unusually quiet city streets. Yet, this time, the ...

On the afternoon of June 25, police in the regional capital of Ethiopia's conflict-affected Amhara region arrested Dr. Daniel Fentaneh, a gynecologist and obstetric resident at Bahir Dar University ...

Rehab is one of millions of children across Sudan whose futures have been upended by war. Since April 2023, schools across the country have shut down, forcing students out of education. Many remain in ...

Analysis - More than 40 Malian soldiers were killed and one of the country's military bases was taken over in early June 2025 in a major attack by an al-Qaeda linked group, Jama'a Nusrat ul-Islam wa ...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday warned that the environment is being attacked on all fronts and called on the international community to urgently tackle the intersection of health and ...

On July 4, a court in Niger 's capital, Niamey, rejected an appeal filed by prominent human rights activist and government critic Moussa Tiangari. Held in detention since December 2024, the appeal was ...

Opinion - When five African presidents board flights bound for Washington this week, they carry more than protocol briefings ...

President Museveni has defended his recent directives to evict balaalo migrant cattle keepers from Northern, North-Western, ...

Women's Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) in Rabat was off to an entertaining start at the Stade Olympique on Saturday night as ...

Blog - Fatima Sanusi, 27, has been benefiting from Jigawa State's Conditional Cash Transfer Programme for the past five months. After being enrolled in the programme in Mafitar Sarki community in ...

Mauritius reiterated its strong commitment to combating Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing during the opening session of the informal dialogue between the European Union ...