In the streets of the Ethiopian capital hundreds of disabled people beg, some from makeshift wheelchairs, the less fortunate dragging themselves on their hands from car to car. Disabled people are seldom taken care of by institutions here; mostly they...

A strange epidemic which hit parts of Adamawa and Borno states, has claimed 100 lives, leaving a thousand others hospitalised. The disease, which started from Mahi local government area, has spread to as many as nine other local government areas and...

Millions of people in East Africa face climate-related hunger as seasons shift and change, a new report published by aid agency Oxfam International said on Monday. The report said shifting seasons are destroying harvests and causing widespread...

African Union peacekeepers based in Mogadishu have an acronym for the guerrilla war in Somalia, VUCA, meaning volatile, unpredictable, complex, and ambiguous. From a distance, they hear echoing blasts of heavy weaponry. A Mogadishu district is under...

Loice Achieng Omollo was sentenced to 14 years in prison for robbery. That was two years ago, but the long sentence is not her greatest worry. Achieng, who is incarcerated at Kodiaga prison in Kisumu, gave birth to her fourth child, a boy, at the...