The European Union’s anti-piracy task force says Somali pirates have hijacked a Malaysian-flagged ship in the Indian Ocean with 23 crew members on board.

Although there are signs of improvement in Niger, which is in the midst of a severe food crisis, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned that child malnutrition rates are alarmingly high in neighbouring Chad. “We’ve seen the...

Poverty eradication remains the country’s biggest challenge in meeting the millennium development goals by the 2015 deadline, the latest UN assessment report says. The United Nations Development Programme report says the poverty level had only...

I had a flashback the other day when I was looking at photographs from Haiti of 15-year-old Fabianne Geismar, shot dead in the head after stealing wall hangings from a Port-au-Prince store, crushed in the Jan. 12 earthquake. The image of Fabianne...

The Kenya Meteorological Society says rains have ended the country’s long drought but aid officials warn that millions of hungry people still need food aid. Spokesman Ayub Shaka said Monday that drought-stricken areas received enough...

Six people died and 14 were still missing after a three-story building collapsed on the outskirts of the country’s capital, a police official said Tuesday, as experts warned that irresponsible contractors were to blame. Policeman Samuel Mukindia...

A cattle-rustling attack in central Kenya has left 32 people dead, including three women and eight children, the Kenya Red Cross said. Al least 400 raiders attacked a small village in Samburu district early Monday, killing 21 residents, the Red Cross...