The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that the number of people teetering on the edge of famine in 43 countries had risen to 45 million – up by three million in 2021 – as acute hunger spikes around the world.

UN has commiserated with the government and people of Sierra Leone over the explosion of a petroleum tanker in Freetown.

The Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) has imposed various sanctions on the leaders of the military coup in Mali for shifting the date for the Presidential and Legislative elections earlier fixed for February 2022.

The Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has convened another Extraordinary Summit on the political situations in the Republics of Guinea and Mali.

A nationwide polio vaccination drive scheduled for Monday across Afghanistan, is only taking place in 15 of the country’s 34 provinces.

President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Akinwumi Adesina, has affirmed that Natural Gas remains key to Africa’s energy security and economic prosperity, amid political pressure to speed up the transition from fossil fuels.

The Liberian government has announced a total of $15,000 cash reward for any useful information for the arrest of perpetrators of recent high-profile murders in Monrovia.

Pope Francis has for the first time appointed a woman to a high office in the state administration of Vatican City.