Stakeholders assert that peace in the troubled Bawku township must go hand-in-hand with economic development after decades of ...

The policy change will result in nearly half a million unintended pregnancies and 1,400 preventable maternal deaths in ...

The Community Development and Advocacy Centre (CODAC), a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), is implementing a pilot project ...

USAID lost almost all ability to track $8.2 billion in unspent humanitarian aid after the Trump administration froze foreign ...

I fully expect to see an exponential increase in new HIV infections,” one expert said. Women and girls are more susceptible ...

February 6 is the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) - a practice deemed a gross ...

Operatives of the Edo State Police Command and the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, have arrested two ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution or war at home. Since 1950, we have faced multiple ...

"Let’s continue to gather information, let’s continue to ask questions and pretend I’m working." The Sahel countries of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger in recent years have been upended by military coups ...

Dango Ouattara had a weekend to remember, scoring his first-ever Premier League hat-trick in the stunning 5-0 victory over Nottingham Forest, but he wasn't the only one. There was one single person in ...

The inaugural Black Europe Film Festival of Minneapolis / Saint Paul, a showcase of Afrodescendant cinema from across Europe, debuts tomorrow through Sunday at various locations in Minneapolis.

ABUJA, Nigeria — The junta-led West African nations of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have formally withdrawn from the regional bloc known as ECOWAS, the body said Wednesday. The previously ...