Last Friday, the Nigerian government described failed attempts to negotiate the release of more than 200 girls kidnapped from a school in Chibok, Nigeria. Officials reported that communications between the government and…
On Saturday, Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, announced his country’s plan to invest $30 billion in Africa over the next three years. At the opening of the Tokyo International Conference on African…
South Africa has toppled Nigeria and reclaimed its status as the largest economy in Africa. This comes two years after Nigeria rebased its GDP calculation and advanced to the top spot. South…
The shadow of the Zika virus hangs over the Rio Olympic Games, with visitors and even high-profile athletes citing worries about Zika as a reason to stay away (even if the risk…
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has designated 4.4 million people in northeast Nigeria as “severely food insecure.” The conditions in Borno and the Lake Chad region are…
The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) alerted Western and Central African governments to be vigilant, and to continue their raised surveillance and prevention efforts after H5N1 avian influenza outbreaks were…
When Muhammadu Buhari — a former general and, for a year-and-a-half in the early 1980s, the military ruler of Nigeria — was sworn in as Nigeria’s president on 29 May 2015, he…
Evidence is mounting that the current outbreak of yellow fever is becoming the latest global health emergency, say two Georgetown University professors who call on the World Health Organization (WHO) to convene…
The number of climate refugees could increase dramatically in future. Researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and the Cyprus Institute in Nicosia have calculated that the Middle East and North…
During a speech this past February, Kenyan President, Uhuru Kenyatta, revealed that the Kenyan government is considering building a prison exclusively for inmates who are considered to be highly violent and are…
