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Twenty-one attacks on health facilities in two months. Nurses shot, clinics burned, parents pulling children from school. Eastern Congo's Ebola fight is collapsing under the weight of a war nobody will end.
South Sudan's government is forcing a December 22 vote with 42 days left, a dissolved unity government, and famine risk climbing. Civilians are paying for elite haste.
Country: South SudanSource: UN Mission in South SudanPlease refer to the attached file.Juba, 10 November 2026 –Briefing the United Nations Security Council today, Anita Kiki Gbeho, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative and Head of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS),urgedthe country’s leaders to end the fighting and engage in inclusive dialogue to reduce tensions and preserve the transition.“With just 42 days until South Sudan's first planned election as a sovereign state, the countr
Authorities struggling to contain DRC's largest Ebola outbreak due to delayed detection and conflict.
Nearly nine million South Sudanese face acute hunger, 446,000 have been uprooted this year, and the men with the oil money are silent.
Thirty-nine people drowned off Senegal's northwest coast. Our governments keep counting bodies instead of building futures, and Europe keeps paying to keep the survivors out of sight.
Bombed hospitals, murdered health workers, famine declared in parts of the country. Both warring generals are answerable, and the foreign powers arming them are complicit.
Displaced families face renewed uncertainty as fighting returns to Tigray.
Country: Democratic Republic of the CongoSource: Médecins Sans FrontièresThe Bundibugyo Ebola virus outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo continues to claim lives.While development of virus-specific vaccines is underway, people at risk should be given broader access to the ERVEBO® vaccine.Merck, global health authorities, and partners must ensure that vaccine allocations can enable a meaningful expansion of vaccination.As the BundibugyoEbola outbreakcontinues inDemocratic Republic of Congo (D
A 13-year-old lost both legs to a drone in Khartoum. Millions of Sudanese children are next in line, and the men with the guns are not stopping.
Nairobi's drains were built for 2.5 million people and now serve nearly 7 million. With a strong El Niño coming, Kibera's poorest are being left to drown.
Washington has stopped defending African voters. Tshisekedi, Museveni and Samia Suluhu Hassan are reading that silence as permission, while Rwanda's army keeps killing in eastern Congo.
Countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, NigeriaSource: World Health OrganizationPlease refer to the attached file.Event descriptionThe Bundibugyo virus disease (BVD) outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo continues at a high, sustained level of transmission, with no sign of decline: close to 390 confirmed cases were added during the reporting period and the national seven-day average has stayed between 65 and 67 cases per day. Nord-Kivu now contributes almost as many cases
Judges ruled his term extension unconstitutional, so Somalia's president sent more than 300 armed men to occupy the highest court in the land.
A flag, a 13-year-old girl shot dead, and 50,000 people running for their lives. Ethiopia's leaders knew this dispute was dangerous. They let it burn.
Seven more are dead after two trains collided on Sunday. Egypt has poured billions into rail, yet the same corridor keeps killing, and the officials keep their seats.
Rwandan soldiers are fighting inside Congo behind the M23 mask, and the world is cutting the aid that keeps Congolese families alive. Enough.
Victoria has sold okpa on Nigerian streets for over 20 years and raised four children on it. Her country should never have made that the only ladder available.
Countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Nigeria, South Sudan, UgandaSource: International Organization for MigrationDistribution and demonstration of use of Infrared thermometers at the Nizi Site for the internally displaced in Bunia, Ituri. Photo: IOM DRC/2026.Nairobi/ Geneva, 10 November 2026– Seventy-one confirmed Ebola cases have been identified since the start of the outbreak through surveillance points supported by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in the Democ
Ebola has infected 10,467 people and killed 5,103 in Congo. Rwanda's war drove millions into camps where it spreads, and donors are $59.8 million short.
Since April 2023, Sudan has recorded 807 attacks on health care, and Kordofan is now the deadliest front. The world keeps calling this a war between generals.
Two-thirds of households in Kulbus face severe hunger and no safe water. Seven in ten families outside town defecate in the open. The world keeps looking away.
Countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Nigeria, South Sudan, UgandaSource: International Organization for MigrationDistribution and demonstration of use of Infrared thermometers at the Nizi Site for the internally displaced in Bunia, Ituri. Photo: IOM DRC/2026.Nairobi / Genève, 10 novembre 2026 – Soixante et onze cas d’Ebola confirmés ont été identifiés depuis le début de la flambée aux points de surveillance soutenus par l’Organisation internationale pour les migrations (OIM) en Ré
Six weeks from its first national election, South Sudan's leaders are looting oil wealth while peacekeepers die and children go hungry. Africa cannot validate this.
Half the African countries the WHO assessed cannot reliably record how their people die. Governments have had decades to fix this, and they keep choosing not to.
Violence in northern Nigeria is fueling a growing humanitarian crisis across the whole region: 64,000 have fled to neighbouring Niger and several hundred have left for Benin since the start of the year, as host countries struggle to cope, the UN’s refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Tuesday.
Drones and drought are “closing in” on Sudan, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), said on Tuesday, describing unprecedented attacks on the country’s infrastructure including by drones travelling up to 1,500 kilometres before hitting their target.
Britain compensated the slave owners, not the enslaved. Now it calls reparations "not feasible." Africa has heard enough polite regret.
Drought, cholera and a war between government and opposition forces have pushed millions toward the edge. The men in charge keep fighting while ordinary people pay.
Two generals who seized Sudan's future are now deciding whether its farmers eat. A $90 million rescue plan is coming. Will anyone make sure it reaches the people who need it?
Sudan's farmers are being starved by a war and then slowed by paperwork. A new agriculture recovery grant shows how far the cure still is from the patient.
Armed drones hit Sudan's power stations up to 15 times in October alone. Children are paying with their water, their food and their hands.
Sixty-six Congolese soldiers have been sentenced to death for fleeing a war Rwanda started. Kinshasa is condemning its own young men while Kigali walks free.
Biya, 93 and in power since 1982, has postponed Cameroon's polls twice. The opposition party is suspended, its candidate is in exile, and talk about the president's health is banned.
Nearly 64,000 Nigerians have fled to Niger this year. Boko Haram, ISWAP and armed gangs are emptying villages, and Nigeria's government has not stopped them.
Nine young men were stopped at Johannesburg's O.R. Tambo Airport, bound for Russia's war. Their recruiters promised jobs. Africa's governments must stop this trade.
Cameroon's president has delayed elections twice and is cracking down on his critics. Across the border in Kenya, most displaced families cannot find enough food to eat.
A 1994 genocide suspect lived in America for over a decade. Uganda's journalists face arrest and torture for doing their jobs. Both are failures of accountability.
El Nino warms surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, bringing worldwide changes in winds and rainfall patterns, on top of man-made global warming. ... Ivory Coast's public meteorology body, Sodexam, said it estimated that the climate episode would lead to lower rainfall, higher temperatures and a longer dry season in the west African country. A water deficit and high temperatures may cut cocoa production "in the order of 21 percent to 25 percent" because of the
Botswana digs 70 percent of De Beers' diamonds but has owned a sliver of the company that sells them. Doubling its stake is a start. Accountability is the real test.
Ahead of the Madlanga Commission’s recommendations, Parliament should carefully review South Africa’s capacity to investigate and prosecute serious crime.
For decades, Africa has served as a transit point for cocaine coming from Latin America and destined for European markets. In recent years, the explosion in demand for cocaine and synthetic stimulants (notably methamphetamine), combined with intensified anti-trafficking efforts in the Western Hemisphere, has led to a considerable expansion of Latin American cartel activities in Africa. While the organizational arrangements between the networks
Nine Zimbabweans arrested in Johannesburg, ready to leave and fight for Moscow. How many have already left without anyone counting their dead?
In Bangui, five civil society activists have been languishing in the Roux camp for nearly a month for having called for a general strike against the rise in fuel prices. Their health is deteriorating.
Two postponements, a vice president groomed to inherit power, an opposition crushed in blood. Meanwhile, Beijing signs deals in Libreville and Cairo hunts its journalists.
In Ituri, 70% of the confirmed Ebola cases in the DRC are concentrated in a province where weapons dictate the law. Meanwhile, health workers are stuck.
More than 3,000 Ivorians died after the 2010 presidential election. Fifteen years later, the ICC has convicted no one, and the victims are still waiting.
Tens of thousands of young Moroccans have tried to swim to Ceuta. Madrid responds with fences and floating barriers. Nobody in Rabat is asking the real question.
Ethiopia's ethnic federal design has handed regions their own armies. Every year since 2024, roughly 4,900 people have died in the fighting that follows.
Cholera has killed 207 people in two Kordofan states while displaced families sleep in classrooms. The world's aid appeal for Sudan's women is 60 percent empty.