Flooding caused by heavy rains has left more than 1,000 people dead and hundreds of thousands of homes destroyed.

The incident comes within days of the deaths of 12 people, including six children and a pregnant woman, when another boat ...

Unprecendented flooding in Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger, Chad, Mali, Ghana and Liberia has triggered humanitarian crises. An estimated four million people — most of them children — are caught up in the ...

Frank Wrona stabbed his house mate to death after being released from prison from a sentence imposed for attacking his ...

Is China’s offer of assistance regarding the ‘Great Green Wall’ in Africa a genuine attempt to save the world from Climate ...

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will join celebrity Oprah Winfrey in a livestream event next week to rally support in key ...

Hundreds of pagers blew up at approximately the same time across Lebanon yesterday, killing at least nine people, including ...

Under the 1996-2017 regime of President Yahya Jammeh, many people fled autocratic rule and were granted asylum in the West ...

Some 126 people were pushed so closely together on a wooden fishing boat that they could barely move. Eating, sleeping and ...

One in five elections globally are disputed in some way, and average voter turnout has fallen by almost 10% in a decade.

Asked what a U.S. Catholic given a choice between voting for a person who supports abortion or one who supports closing ...

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