Trapped by geography and squeezed by global market forces, the world’s 32 landlocked developing countries remain among the poorest – and most overlooked ...

For the world’s landlocked developing countries (LLDCs), geography isn’t just a challenge, it’s a costly barrier to trade ...

As hunger rages in northeast Nigeria, funds for food delivery are running out, the World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Wednesday, noting that without immediate funding, its operations in the northeas ...

Hopes for peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been shaken by a surge in brutal attacks on civilians by armed groups, including the Rwandan-backed M23 militia, in the country’s tr ...

The bodies of all eight people who died in a Ghana Air Force helicopter crash on Wednesday morning have been retrieved, security officials have confirmed ...

Ghana\'s President John Dramani Mahama has declared three days of national mourning beginning on Thursday, 7 August, in honour of the eight people, including two cabinet ministers, who died in a tragi ...

Hosts Tanzania are on course for a place in the quarter-finals of the 2024 TotalEnergies CAF African Nations Championship (CHAN) following a hard-fought 1-0 win over Mauritania, thanks to a lat ...

UN data published on Wednesday underscores the tiny amount of cultivable land that remains in the Gaza Strip, contributing to the famine conditions now being endured by more than two million people th ...

The world changed forever 80 years ago this Wednesday when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima during the Second World War ...

Hostilities have continued in Sweida, Syria, despite a ceasefire agreement, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in an update published on Wednesday ...

Burkina Faso produced a dominant second-half display to defeat debutants Central African Republic 4-2 and revive their 2024 TotalEnergies CAF African Nations Championship (CHAN) campaign at the Ben ...

The Sudan Doctors Network on Wednesday issued an urgent humanitarian appeal regarding the dire food situation in the city of Al Fashir, North Darfur State, which is under a complete siege that led to ...