Recent data tell us that tropical Africa has lost about 22 per cent of its forested a.   rea since 1900, which is comparable to the losses in the Amazon.

South Korea plans to issue a travel ban for an eastern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo due to intensifying ...

To encourage adoption of the new e-tax system, the government held a series of workshops this week to train tax officials.

A study by WHO-AFRO evaluating the five-year progress of the implementation of the regional cholera prevention and control ...

THE renewed attacks by armed bandit groups and the intensified violence by Boko Haram and the Islamic State of West Africa leave civilians in North-East ...

South Africa often uses its diplomatic heft to position itself as defender of the "global south" on the world stage, but the ...

Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi has vowed “a vigorous and coordinated response” against a rebel ...

Many of the millions of people trapped in eastern Congo’s escalating rebellion face a terrible choice: Retreat into Congo’s ...

Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have formally withdrawn from the regional bloc known as ECOWAS, the body said Wednesday.

Democratic Republic of Congo's M23 rebels are moving south towards Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province, in what ...

The latest fighting has heightened an already dire humanitarian crisis in the region, forcing half a million people from ...

Rwanda-backed fighters were in control of almost all of the DR Congo city of Goma Wednesday where residents were re-emerging ...