Speaking during his visit to Lebanon, IOM regional chief Othman Belbeisi emphasized the urgent need to identify safe locations to accommodate displaced people, as many existing shelters are overwhelmed, he said, based on field assessments

The leaders of Kenya and Haiti on Friday urged international partners to honor their commitment to the U.N.-backed peacekeeping mission in Haiti, saying the mission needs more resources and that its budget will run out in March 2025.

Performing as one of Hindu-majority India’s most beloved gods means living up to the values enshrined in his inspiring life story, says Agnihotri, the actor playing Lord Rama.

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization of survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for its activism against nuclear weapons.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi attended a summit in the Eritrean capital, Asmara , on Thursday , where he pledged strong regional security cooperation with the leaders of Somalia and Eritrea

The Haitian Prime Minister Gary Conille visited Kenya on Thursday and was scheduled to meet President William Ruto on Friday.

The former security boss, Arthur Fraser, alleged that Ramaphosa had been keeping the cash hidden in furniture at his ranch to evade South Africa’s foreign currency laws when it was stolen.

“We will ask them to remain in Paris.”

The head of Africa’s leading public health agency announced on Thursday that the Ebola-like Marburg fever outbreak in Rwanda is under control, making travel bans to the East African nation unnecessary.

The Tunisian national team continue their 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualification campaign in a home and away ‘double header’ against Comoros on Friday and Tuesday.

During an interview from Sudan, UNICEF Representative in the country Sheldon Yett said, “Kids, didn’t start this war. They are not the ones who are really fighting this war, and they’re not responsible for this war. But they are the victims.”

For years, the international shipping industry has been criticized for making little progress in reducing the carbon-belching pollution released by the vessels that move most of the cargo that people use every day, such as food, cars, clothes and many other things.

Koteba is a traditional form of theater practiced by Mali’s largest ethnic group, the Bambara. It mixes acting, singing and dancing and is usually performed in villages as an outlet to work through problems and an open space for satire. Now psychiatrists are using it as a form of therapy

“When I see Souleymane sitting at the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons, I put myself in his shoes, because I know what it’s like to wait for your identity papers here in France, to be in this situation – the stress, the anxiety ,”…

The theme of the next Met Gala and its celebrity chairs have been announced: Pharrell Williams, Lewis Hamilton, Colman Domingo, A$AP Rocky and LeBron James will help the museum launch an exhibit examining Black style over the centuries.

In a Security Council session on Wednesday, China’s deputy envoy to the UN said that the continued presence of external forces undermines Libya’s political transition. Under the 2020 ceasefire agreement, all foreign forces were meant to be withdrawn within months, but few are believed to have left

Crowds of protesters gathered in the Colombian capital on Wednesday, marching in support of the country’s president and vice president after electoral authorities ruled in favour of investigating financial misconduct allegations against the pair’s 2022 election campaign.

To fill an urgent labour shortage in wartime Russia, the Kremlin has been recruiting women aged 18-22 from places like Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, South Sudan, Sierra Leone and Nigeria, as well as the South Asian country of Sri Lanka.

The death toll in a brutal gang attack last week on a small town in central Haiti has risen to at least 115, a local official said on Wednesday.

South Sudan’s leaders recently prolonged the mandate of the transitional government, pushing back elections by two years to December 2026

Church leaders claim it has the potential to stir the creativity, spirituality and academic prowess of all Africans.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is aiming for a trial on sex trafficking charges in the spring, according to his attorneys who addressed a judge on Wednesday.

Tropicana Field, the home of the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team in St. Petersburg, appeared badly damaged.

Human Rights Watch, Congolese civil society and opposition parties had pointed out political repression, arbitrary detentions and killings as reasons to deny Kinshasa a seat on the symbolic but highly prestigious body

The number of boats capsizing in the Democratic Republic of Congo is rising as more individuals opt for wooden vessels as compared to travelling by road.

Voters in Mozambique cast their ballots for a new president on Wednesday, in an election anticipated to prolong the ruling party’s nearly 49-year reign since the country achieved independence from Portugal in 1975.

Kenyans reacted on Wednesday after parliament overwhelmingly voted to impeach the country’s deputy president.

Such massacres were limited to the capital of Port-au-Prince, of which 80% is controlled by gangs and is now being patrolled by Kenyan police leading a U.N.-backed mission struggling with a lack of funds and personnel.

Rwandan artists presented a play called “Generation 25,” which features lessons from the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

“Everybody in Tampa Bay should assume we are going to be ground zero,”

Sudan is the largest displacement crisis in the world, Věra Jourová, Vice President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency, said as the European Parliament debated the situation in the war-torn country on Tuesday.

Baalbek, Lebanon’s iconic historical ruins site and the compass of tourism in the tiny Mediterranean country, is suffering the impact of the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.

The incident occurred shortly after the flight departed from Seattle on Tuesday evening.

Mozambique is voting for a new president in an election on Wednesday that could extend the ruling party’s 49 years in power since the southern African nation gained independence from Portugal in 1975

The United States has sanctioned a senior member of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces for “leading efforts” to supply weapons for the 17-month war that has killed more than 20,000 people and ravaged the northeast African country.

A demonstration was held in Accra, Ghana, on Tuesday to call for the approval of the anti-LGBT law.

During a visit to Egypt on Tuesday, Jordan’s foreign minister pointed out that his country’s primary goal is “to stop Israeli aggression towards Lebanon.” Ayman Safadi made these comments while meeting with his Egyptian counterpart, Badr Abdelatty, for discussions.

Everyday since the tragedy on October 3, dozens of people wait at the port of Kituku, a few hundred metres from where the boat sank for news about their family members who are still missing

On Tuesday, the Dominican Republic announced that it has deported or repatriated almost 11,000 Haitians over the past week.

Mozambique is set to see 17 million voters participate in the elections on October 9, which will decide the composition of 250 members in parliament and provincial assemblies.