The greatest epidemic of Yellow Fever in decades is hitting the Democratic Republic of Congo and Angolo, with fears that it could soon spread to the Americas and Europe.

One of the largest emergency vaccinations campaigns ever attempted in Africa will begin next week as...

More than 77 million people have been vaccinated against yellow fever as part of the largest emergency vaccination campaign ever attempted in Africa.

A major part of the emergency campaign has been completed in record time and in less than two weeks has reached the targ...

Hundreds of children have been recruited by armed forces in South Sudan, as violations against women and children continue to increase.

The conflict in South Sudan began late 2013 and since then an estimated 16000 children have been recruited by armed forces and groups,...

After more than two years without wild polio-virus in Nigeria, the government has reported two children have been paralysed by the disease in the northern Borno state.

An emergency mass polio vaccination has been announced with the Government of Nigeria collaborating wi...

The number of people requiring food assistance in north-eastern Nigeria has dramatically doubled since March, rising to 4.5 million people according to a mid-August analysis (Cadre Harmonisé).

A declining economy could see this figure rise by one million by as early as...

Nearly a hundred people were killed and hundreds more injured during a protest in Ethiopia over the weekend as demonstrators clashed with security forces, Amnesty International says.

According to Amnesty International thousands of protestors turned out in Oromia and Amh...

Esther Mungalaba, a 19 year old Zambian student, has been selected as the senior runner up of the Queen’s Commonwealth Essay competition.

Four young writers have been awarded winners and runners up of The Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition 2016, the world’s oldest i...

The Australian Government has announced that it will provide further financial assistance to southern African to help combat the acute rise in food shortages caused by severe El Niño conditions in the region.

Australia will provide $10 million to the World Food Programm...

2.5 million people are facing hunger in the Central African Region (CAR), according to an Emergency Food Assessment conducted by the UN's World Food Program (WFP) and its partners.

This figure has doubled in the last year as conflict and insecurity have led to a lack...

Zimbabwe's Constitutional Court has outlawed child marriage, after two former child brides took the case to court in a revolutionary case that has challenged the a practice that is rife in the Southern African nation.

Two former child brides Loveness Mudzuru and Ruvim...