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The drought devastating the Horn of Africa has hit Somalia the hardest, with an estimated one-half of its 16 million people facing crisis-level food insecurity. Aid groups say hundreds of thousands of Somalis are at risk of starving to death, while hun...

Despite the growing “deficit in multilateralism”, exacerbated by the rise in power political competition, the European Union remains mobilized to work closely with the United Nations, which has kept functioning even at the height of the cold war, the b...

The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) says the number of people forced to flee their homes in 2021 hit its highest level since records began as the speed and scale of forced displacement outpaces solutions for refugees.The UNHCR said in its annual ...

Thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes and many civilians have been killed amid increased fighting between Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) and Malian armed forces and allied armed groups, as the conflict in northern Mali es...

The Chinese government is working to prevent continued diplomatic fallout and protect its image in Africa after racist videos of African children made by a Chinese man living in Malawi surfaced this week.The BBC’s investigative report into the videos f...

Caretaker Prime Minister, Najib Mikati, on Thursday met at the Grand Serail with the Director of the Middle East and North Africa Department at the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) Stephen Hickey, in presence of Brit...

Brief SummaryThe calls this week (9-15 June 2022) recorded on Radio Ergo’s independent call-in platform show increasing concern over food shortages and rising living costs, resulting from the prevailing drought conditions. Callers in some areas receivi...

The British Red Cross has launched an appeal to respond to the growing food crisis faced by communities across Africa, including in Kenya, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Somalia.With more than 100 million people already struggling without food across the regio...