List of Africa articles
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malaria First-Ever Malaria Vaccine To Begin Tests Next Year
If effective, it would be a big deal for Africa, which bears the brunt of malaria cases and deaths.
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NABANGA, SUDAN: Uganda's rebel leader, Joseph Kony's second in command, Vincent Otti (C) talks on a communication device as he walks 12 July 2006 through the jungle into a clearing in Nabanga, south Sudan, near the Ugandan and D.R. Congo borders. The venue is to be the stage for a meeting between the mediating south Sudan Government and the infamous Ugandan rebel movement, Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) officials in a bid to a truce negotiation. Just a day after peace talks began 19 July 2006 under Sudanese mediation, the Ugandan government flatly rejected demands for a truce from the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and said there could be no ceasefire until a full peace settlement is reached. AFP PHOTO/MATT BROWN (Photo credit should read MATT BROWN/AFP/Getty Images) U.S. Will Keep Fighting Lord’s Resistance Army After All
The Trump team is discovering that U.S. security commitments are really, really sticky.
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cash crop Nigerian Spy Chief Caught With $43 Million in Cash Is Suspended
Just slightly suspicious.
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NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 13: President-elect Donald Trump gets into the elevator after speaking to reporters after his meeting with television personality Steve Harvey at Trump Tower, January 13, 2017 in New York City. President-elect Trump continues to hold meetings at Trump Tower in New York. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Democracy Dies in Trump’s Darkness
The president should reverse his administration's campaign against transparency.
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drc crop The U.N. Uncovers Dozens of Mass Graves in Central Congo
Turmoil and violence threaten Joseph Kabila’s grip on power.
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TOPSHOT - A woman and a young girl young child suffering from severe malnutrition sleep on a bed in the ICU ward at the In-Patient Therapeutic Feeding Centre in the Gwangwe district of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State, northeastern Nigeria, on September 17, 2016. Aid agencies have long warned about the risk of food shortages in northeast Nigeria because of the conflict, which has killed at least 20,000 since 2009 and left more than 2.6 million homeless. In July, the United Nations said nearly 250,000 children under five could suffer from severe acute malnutrition this year in Borno state alone and one in five -- some 50,000 -- could die. But despite the huge numbers involved, the situation has received little attention compared with other humanitarian crises around the world -- even within Nigeria. / AFP / STEFAN HEUNIS (Photo credit should read STEFAN HEUNIS/AFP/Getty Images) Get Ready for Another Famine-Fueled Migrant Crisis – In Nigeria
The world’s seventh most populous country is about to run out of food, as aid agencies face cuts.
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TOPSHOT - Somali security forces patrol the scene of a suicide car bomb blast on August 30, 2016 in Mogadishu. At least seven people were killed on August 30 when jihadists exploded a suicide car bomb outside a popular hotel close to the presidential palace in Somalia's capital Mogadishu. The Al-Qaeda aligned Shabaab jihadists claimed responsibility for the attack on the SYL hotel which was previously attacked in both February 2016 and January 2015. / AFP / Mohamed ABDIWAHAB (Photo credit should read MOHAMED ABDIWAHAB/AFP/Getty Images) U.S. to Send Troops to Somalia Amid Blowback
Trump declared Somalia a war zone. Al-Shabab pushed back. Now we’ve got boots on the ground.
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Girls rescued by Nigerian soldiers from Islamist militants Boko Haram at Sambisa Forest line up to collect donated clothes at the Malkohi refugee camp in Yola on May 5, 2015. They were among a group of 275 people rescued by the Nigerian military last week and arrived at the camp on May 2. The Nigerian military said it has rescued some 700 women and children in the past weeks. AFP PHOTO / EMMANUEL AREWA (Photo credit should read EMMANUEL AREWA/AFP/Getty Images) Boko Haram Has Forced 117 Children to Act As Suicide Bombers
A new UNICEF report details how the terrorist group relies on children to do its dirty work.
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TOPSHOT - A Democratic Alliance (DA) party's supporters holds a placard reading "Jacob Zuma must go" during a march against South African president Jacob Zuma on April 7, 2017 in Johannesburg. Thousands of protesters marched through South African cities on April 7, 2017 demanding President Jacob Zuma's resignation, as a second ratings agency downgraded the country's debt to junk status. Zuma's sacking of respected finance minister Pravin Gordhan last week has fanned public anger, divisions within the ruling ANC party and a sharp decline in investor confidence in the country. / AFP PHOTO / JOHN WESSELS (Photo credit should read JOHN WESSELS/AFP/Getty Images) South Africa’s Zimbabwe Moment
President Jacob Zuma is toying with land expropriation policies that threaten the country's economy — and his own leadership.
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shell crop Leaked Records Show Shell’s Complicity in Massive Oil Corruption Scandal
New leaked records undercut Shell’s vigorous denials it was involved in a sprawling Nigerian corruption scandal.
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TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY JEAN-MARC MOJON A Somali, part armed militia, part pirate, carries his high-caliber weapon on a beach in the central Somali town of Hobyo on August 20, 2010. Hobyo has no schools, no clinics and bad drinking water sources. Fighting a losing battle against the sand that has already completely covered the old Italian port, Hobyo's scattering of rundown houses and shacks looks anything but the nerve centre of an activity threatening global shipping. AFP PHOTO / ROBERTO SCHMIDT (Photo credit should read ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images) Somalia’s Pirates Are Back in Business
Lawlessness onshore is fueling a resurgence of crime on the high seas.
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Garowe, Somalia, 2017 Habiba Azil, who is 9 month old and malnourished, is being checked by doctors inside the Garowe General Hopsital in the capital of Puntland. Puntland is a semi autonomous state in northeastern Somalia. The United Nations warns that half of the population of Somalia, about 6,2 million people, are affected by a drought in the Horn of Africa that could become a famine. During the last famine in 2011 over 250 000 people died. Starvation Stalks the Horn of Africa
Images from the drought that's pushing Somalia back to the brink of famine.
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Felix Tshisekedi, the son of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) late opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi takes part in a funeral wake for her late husband, in Brussels on February 5, 2017. A three-day funeral wake in memory of Tshisekedi started on February 3, 2017 after the main DRC opposition leader died in Brussels aged 84 on February 1, 2017. / AFP / EMMANUEL DUNAND (Photo credit should read EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images) The Man Who Would Be King of Congo
Can the scion of Congo’s second-most famous political dynasty shepherd the country to its first peaceful transition of power?
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Jammeh_cover Gambia’s Ousted Dictator Is Living the Good Life in a Palace in Equatorial Guinea
Yahya Jammeh has kept a low profile since he was run out of Banjul in January. FP finds him holed up at a luxurious villa in another African kleptocracy.
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UNSPECIFIED, PERSIAN GULF REGION - JANUARY 07: A U.S. Air Force MQ-1B Predator unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), (R), returns from a mission to an air base in the Persian Gulf region on January 7, 2016. The U.S. military and coalition forces use the base, located in an undisclosed location, to launch drone airstrikes against ISIL in Iraq and Syria, as well as to transport cargo and and troops supporting Operation Inherent Resolve. The Predators at the base are operated and maintained by the 46th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron, currently attached to the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) Trump Expands War Authorities to Target Militants in Somalia
Under a new authorization, U.S. forces are given more ability to launch attacks on al Shabab in the East African country
