Britain has pledged to offer £38-million ($61-million) to Ethiopia in order to feed more than one million people who have been devastated by a severe drought.
UN refugee camps are at capacity all over eastern Africa. But Somalis keep fleeing their country headed to Kenya, Ethiopia and elsewhere.
Kenya is considering legalizing genetically modified maize, which it has long shunned.
Overcrowding sparked a riot at a massive refugee camp in Kenya.
Mobile financial services are expected to improve the lives of around 2 billion people in developing countries within a decade and boost economies, a Boston Consulting Group study found.
Kenya has witnessed a dramatic rise in the number of Somali refugees fleeing that country’s endless wars and, now, the worst drought in six decades, according to humanitarian groups.
Reggie Brown, whose prominence as a President Obama impersonator got a boost after a performance at a prominent GOP conference recently, got a chance to finish what he started after his performance was cut short by an official.
In Africa on a goodwill mission Friday, First Lady Michelle Obama defended her husband against criticism that he isn't paying enough attention to the continent. The first lady said her weeklong trip is, actually, proof of the president's commitment to Africa, the Associated Press reported.
President Bashir is wanted by the International Criminal Court for genocide and war crimes. He will be hosted in Beijing for three days next week.
Reggie Brown, whose prominence as a President Obama impersonator got a boost after a performance at a prominent GOP conference over the weekend, says he wants to star in whatever movie is eventually made about the Commander in Chief.
Majority of world's refugees are in developing countries, reveals a latest report by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Monday. The report is released at a time when anti-refugee sentiment is on the rise in many industrialized countries.
Reggie Brown, a Barack Obama impersonator was escorted off the stage by an official at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans on Saturday.
The United States has formally dropped criminal charges against for al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who was killed in a U.S. military raid in Pakistan last month, BBC News reported.
Manhattan Federal Court Judge Lewis Kaplan has dismissed all criminal charges against slain al-Qaeda chieftan Osama bin Laden.
The two Al Qaeda leaders' relationship goes back over 30 years.
A look into the life of the new head of Al Qaeda and FBI's most wanted man.
Al-Qaeda has declared Ayman al- Zawahiri as its new leader after the killing of Osama bin Laden in a U.S. raid in Pakistan Last month.
U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton visited Tanzania to honor the victims of the embassy bombings from 1998, a day after the alleged mastermind of those attacks was reportedly killed in Somalia.
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, the planner of the U.S. embassy attacks in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998 was killed last Tuesday at a police checkpoint, Somali authorities said Saturday.
The man who allegedly masterminded the bombings of U.S. embassies in East Africa in 1998 has reportedly been killed in Somalia.
A Galagos also known as a bushbaby and a seven-month old yellow baboon (Papio cynocelphalus) live in the Keny Wildlife Service (KWS) headquarters in Nairobi.
British girl gets her wish to trend on Twitter.