After more than 20 cases of Marburg virus disease have been confirmed and several deaths reported, Rwandan health authorities are stepping up outbreak control efforts. Cases of the virus have been confirmed in several of the country’s districts. Some are in ... Read More

Delegates at the UN General Assembly, including the foreign ministers from Indonesia, Denmark and Trinidad and Tobago, have called for an end to hostilities in the Middle East. The Danish foreign minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, said, 'Hundreds of thousands of people ... Read More

The World Bank said it is rolling out measures to ensure the recipients of lending to Uganda are not discriminated against by a tough anti-gay law. A World Bank spokesperson said the measures, which include an independent monitoring mechanism to ensure ... Read More

President Joe Biden U.S. President Joe Biden will visit Africa next month, the White House announced Tuesday (Sep. 24), in his first trip to the continent while in office. He will first travel to Berlin. In the German capital, he will ... Read More

South Africa has urged for a peaceful resolution the the ongoing Gaza war. Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, Ramaphosa called upon the world's leaders to take decisive action to end Palestinian suffering. "The violence the Palestinian people are ... Read More

Burkina Faso's new leader Captain Ibrahim Traore arrives for a ceremony to honor soldiers killed in an earlier ambush in Gaskinde, in Ouagadougou on Oct. 8, 2022. Burkina Faso’s Security Minister Mahamadou Sana said on national television Monday night that ... Read More

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has held its first general meeting on capacity building of directors-general of copyright offices to strengthen the return of cultural property to countries of origin.  The workshop held in Accra, was in partnership with ... Read More

A total of 103 cases of conflicts between Fulani Pastoralists and some settled farmers in the Bole District of the Savannah Region have been amicably resolved. This was through the implementation of the Mitigating Fulani Pastoralists and Settled Farmer Land Conflict ... Read More

Kenya has pledged to send 600 more police officers to Haiti in the coming weeks to help fight gangs controlling much of the capital, Port-au-Prince, and nearby areas. This would bring the Kenyan contingent, deployed incrementally since June to help the ... Read More

Major General Kenneth Ekman The U.S. is returning Special Forces troops to Chad after leaving at the country’s request nearly five months ago. "We have reached an agreement on the return of a limited number of Special Forces personnel," Maj. General Kenneth ... Read More