By Al Jazeera Staff and AP More than 450,000 people are projected to die from additional heat due to the unusually strong El Nino event over the next six months, according to a research report. The projection, published on Wednesday…
By Rédaction Africanews and AFP Renewed fighting in Yemen could see the number of refugees fleeing across the Red Sea to Djibouti jump to 10,000, while displacement inside Yemen could swell to over 230,000, the UN warned Tuesday. Yemeni refugees…
By Rédaction Africanews with AFP Sources on Tuesday said the United States has refused to give Sudan’s de facto leader a visa to travel to New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly. General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, whose army…
A 65-year-old doctor has appeared in court, the first person in the UK to be charged over the genocide in Rwanda in 1994. Dr Vincent Brown, formerly Dr Vincent Bajinya, who is in custody, confirmed his name and address from…
By AFP and Reuters Ethiopian Airlines has suspended flights to three airports in northern Tigray amid an escalation of conflict by an armed group in the region. In a post on Telegram, the airline said that due to the “current…
By Rédaction Africanews Dozens of people in the United States have sued the manufacturers of popular GLP-1 drugs, claiming that the medicines caused a rare eye condition that can result in permanent vision loss, according to US media reports. The…
British journalist Mark Doyle, best known for his reporting on conflicts in Africa in the 1990s and 2000s, has died aged 67 after a short illness. After living in Africa, he joined the BBC in 1986. Doyle became East Africa…
By Nicolas Haque Dakar, Senegal – Twenty-four hours before health workers across Senegal were due to walk out on strike, Awa Diba went into labour. Her first child was coming into the world as hospitals prepared to limit services to…
By Rédaction Africanews with AFP A report by an African anti-corruption group alleges that dozens of Nigerian officials laundered hundreds of millions of dollars through property purchases in the United States over more than two decades. The investigation by the…
Usman Muhammad pauses by the entrance to a tiny Nigerian prison cell and leans his forehead against the wall unable to speak. The day before he had been trapped inside the stifling room, measuring roughly 6m (19.7ft) by 3m (9.8ft),…
