As worries mount about food shortages due to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, Egypt – the world’s largest importer of wheat - says it is preparing a series of agricultural projects to help curb food imports and provide increasingly for the ... Read More

Yoweri Museveni - Uganda’s President For the past six months Ugandans have been forced to spend twice as much to afford necessities like fuel and food, among other commodities. Addressing the country Sunday night on how to survive the high ... Read More

Outgoing Somalia President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, left, also known as Farmaajo, presents the Somali flag to newly elected President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on May 23, 2022. Hassan Sheikh Mohamud officially took office in the Horn of Africa country after a handover ... Read More

Senegalese President Macky Sall Senegalese President Macky Sall said Sunday he would travel to Russia and Ukraine soon on behalf of the African Union, whose presidency he currently holds. The trip had been due to take place on May 18 but ... Read More

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz  German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said his country is interested in a major gas exploitation project in Senegal as he began a three-nation visit to Africa on Sunday that also is focused on the geopolitical consequences of the ... Read More

The World Health Organization says authorities in Mozambique have declared an outbreak of wild poliovirus type 1 after confirming that a child in the country’s northeastern Tete province has contracted the disease. It becomes the second case of wild poliovirus ... Read More

A total of 1.39 million children in the Tigray region are currently missing out on education because of Ethiopia’s civil war, according to the United Nations. While journalists are banned from entering Tigray, VOA was able to access the neighboring Amhara ... Read More

The global pandemic has pushed more than 55 million Africans into extreme poverty and reversed two decades of hard work in poverty reduction on the continent. The Economic Report on Africa for 2021 blamed the growing poverty on job losses, ... Read More

U.S. forces tasked with countering the al-Shabab terror group will no longer have to "commute" to Somalia from neighboring countries, after officials reversed a decision that officials blame for allowing the al-Qaida affiliate to grow more powerful and more dangerous. On ... Read More

Somalia's newly elected President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, right, holds hands with incumbent President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, left after winning the elections in Mogadishu, Somalia, May 16, 2022 Somali legislators have elected former leader Hassan Sheikh Mohamud as the country’s next ... Read More