Africa

People suffering in Somalia's latest drought have fared better when donors deftly shift funding to emergency projects that help residents save money and stockpile food, a charity said on Tuesday. Severe drought in the Horn of Africa nation is expected to deepen until the October...

African Development Bank Young Professionals Program 2018 for young Africans | Opportunities For Africans August 22, 2017 Do you have passion and commitment to development of Africa? Outstanding academic and professional achievements? A commitment to engage in crucial issues in Africa’s development? Do you wish to...

  Application Deadline: September 29th 2017 The Building Entrepreneurs Today (BET) is a capacity building and business education initiative aimed at generating interest in entrepreneurship and designed to support budding entrepreneurs of all ages. Since its inception in 2010, The BET programme in partnership with the Enterprise...

Nasa has claimed that the Jubilee Party is forcing its candidates who lost in the elections to concede defeat. The opposition coalition’s campaign chairman, Mr Musalia Mudavadi, said the most affected candidates were the governors who were defending their seats, who he claimed had been...

Smugglers have twice forced African migrants off their boats near Yemen this month, leaving dozens to drown. Fatima Mohie-Eldin from Muftah explains the two deadly episodes and looks at why young Ethiopians and Somalis are still trying to sail to war-torn Yemen. On August 10,...

An Ethiopian maid who was forcibly thrown from the seventh floor of a building in Kuwait has returned to the country four months after the incident that sparked outrage in the Gulf country and abroad. The Addis Standard news portal shared photos of Adesech Sadik...

MOGADISHU, Somalia — The Somali Islamic extremist group al-Shabab is confirming that one of its top commanders was killed by a U.S. airstrike in July. The SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors extremist groups, says al-Shabab issued a statement Monday confirming the killing of Ali Muhammad...

Horndiplomat-UK Minister of State for International Development and Minister of State for Africa at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office  Mr. Rory Stewart visited in Somaliland . The UK Minister met with the vice president of Somaliland Mr. Abdirahman Saylici and cabinets from the government. Both sides...

The Kenyan military on Sunday told residents who live close to Boni forest along the Kenyan coast to vacate the area within 48 hours in preparation for a heavy bombardment planned to wipe out al-Shabaab militants hiding within. The order was delivered on Sunday by...

A group of Turkish volunteers who arrived in Somalia as part of an initiative by the Turkish development agency have started renovating an orphanage and school, reports said Sunday. Consisting of 200 students, the 2017 Africa Experience Sharing Program led by the Turkish Cooperation and...