Central Africa

Nearly half of the population - 47 percent - suffers from high and surging acute food insecurity in the Central African Republic as the...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, regained access to two refugee camps in Tigray and found Eritrean refugees in desperate need of supplies and services...

Over 1 million confirmed COVID19 cases on the African continent - with more than 730,000 recoveries & more than 23,000 deaths cumulatively. View country figures...

Download logoSouth Sudan acceded to the international Convention on Cluster Munitions on August 3, 2023, the 112th country to do so, Human Rights Watch...

Over 1.5 million confirmed COVID-19 cases on the African continent - with more than 1.2 million recoveries & 36,000 deaths cumulatively. View country figures &...

Africa is facing a fast-surging third wave of COVID-19 pandemic, with cases spreading more rapidly and projected to soon overtake the peak of the...

Download logoIn public health emergencies such as the on-going COVID-19 pandemic, one essential lifesaving action is risk communication. This is because people have a...

Download logoThe number of children receiving treatment for the most dangerous form of malnutrition surged 300% in the first six months of 2022 at...

Download logoThe World Health Organization (WHO) welcomes the European Medicines Agency (EMA) announcement recommending a conditional marketing authorization for the rVSV-ZEBOV-GP vaccine, which has...

“I didn’t think that I could get COVID out here in my village,” says Linda Simelane at her home in Sibebe in rural Eswatini. “I...