In 2012, when M23 rebels appeared poised to seize control of a major city in eastern Congo, western countries suspended aid ...

THE renewed attacks by armed bandit groups and the intensified violence by Boko Haram and the Islamic State of West Africa leave civilians in North-East ...

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has said that almost 50 millions people are currently suffering ...

The world has been witnessing rapid technological advancement, fundamental demographic changes and various emerging issues, and these developments require “pro-active and bold steps” to prepare ...

The Sahel region is a geographical belt in Africa that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, between the Sahara ...

For the past ten years, the Cairo office of Russian state media outlets RIA Novosti and Sputnik has centralised their international news coverage in  Arabic. These outlets capitalise on criticism of ...

With only one mental health institution, the Tanka Tanka Psychiatric Hospital, serving a population of over 2. 6 million people, the country faces a critical shortage of mental health care resources.

The Sahel states of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, are officially leaving the regional economic bloc ECOWAS on Wednesday, after 50 years.The withdrawal from the Economic Community of West African ...

Three countries under military rule have officially left West African regional bloc Ecowas, after more than a year of diplomatic tensions. The withdrawal of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger is a huge blow ...

National passports and identity cards bearing ECOWAS logo held by the citizens of Burkina Faso, the Republic of Mali and the ...

The military leaders of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have posed a major challenge to the bloc’s unity, refusing to heed its call for a transition to civilian rule.

Brics has emerged as a significant international force since 2009 when it was established at a summit in Russia. What began as a five-member group encompassing ...