The Latest Breaking News on Food Insecurity

NAIROBI - The death toll in an investigation linked to a Kenyan cult that practised starvation to "meet Jesus Christ" has surpassed 300 after 19 new bodies were found Tuesday, a senior official said.

Ennahdha party leaders stop eating to protest against their imprisonment on terrorism, money-laundering charges.

Eritrea quit the body in 2007 in protest of its neighbour Ethiopia deploying troops to Somalia to fight al-Shabab.

Activists and observers have warned that unchecked violence could prove worse than Darfur’s previous cycle of killings.

Sierra Leone elects a new president and government this June. Here’s what you need to know about the election.

At least 46 people, half of them children, were killed in a militia attack on a camp for displaced people in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

The whereabouts of hundreds of fighters on both sides of the Ethiopian war are still not known, despite truce.

African group ‘not prepared to participate in same spaces with Dragos Viorel Tigau

In 18 months South Sudan is supposed to head to the polls for presidential elections, the culmination of a peace agreement signed nearly five years ago to pull the nation out of fighting that killed some 400,000 people

Unicef says ‘more and more unaccompanied children’ among thousands of refugees streaming across 1,000km-long border

The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals recently concluded a two-year court hearing on Félicien Kabuga. Kabuga is accused of crimes against humanity during the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994. The court ruled that he was not mentally fit for trial.