Famine in Somalia: We are deeply concerned about the level of pain and suffering that so many Somalis are enduring We cannot forget the crisis in Somalia in 2011-2012 when the country was hit by ...
A woman dies worldwide every two minutes from complications related to pregnancy or childbirth, according to a report by UN agencies. Although since 1990 a number of countries have halved the maternal mortality rate, it ...
LDC5- MARCH 5-9, 2023 DOHA, QATAR The least developed countries (LDCs) are a category of countries created in 1971 by the United Nations, grouping together the least socio-economically developed countries on the planet. 46 countries ...
Mali is a vast land-locked country with an area of over 1.2 million square kilometers and a population of 20.3 million. Mali’s population continues to live under a challenging mix of recurrent droughts that continuously ...
An earthquake that occurred at dawn on February 5, 2023 with a magnitude of 7.7 and a second that occurred during the afternoon with a magnitude of 7.6 shook Turkey and Syria causing thousands of ...
The United Nations Development Program is concerned that the shift of activities by violent extremist groups from the Middle East and North Africa to sub-Saharan Africa has received relatively a little attention from the International ...
The African continent has been always the scene of various human and material disasters resulting from armed conflicts and bad governance, exacerbated by the increasing state of poverty the vast majority of Africans in rural ...
For decades, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been plagued by numerous rebel movements. The crisis which today has put the local populations in an extremely difficult situation. A bomb attack in the Democratic ...
UNESCO launched the elaboration of the General History of Africa in 1964; a work in 8 volumes to remedy the widespread ignorance of Africa’s past. The General History of Africa is a work published in ...
The drought in the Horn of Africa threatens to become a humanitarian catastrophe. Also in East Africa, rainfall has been below average for four consecutive wet seasons; what triggered a major humanitarian crisis affecting millions ...