Rome (AFP) - The United Nations has approved an emergency loan of $22 million (20.3 million euros) in a bid to prevent another famine in drought and crisis-hit Somalia, its food agency said Tuesday. The Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) is releasing the funds to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in the hope it will help stave off ...

Johannesburg (AFP) - Qualifying for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations begins on Wednesday, just 45 days after Cameroon snatched victory over Egypt in the final of the previous edition. The Indomitable Lions of Cameroon and the Pharaohs of Egypt will not be involved, however, as they are among 45 countries given byes to the group phase. That ...

Mogadishu (AFP) - At least five people were killed when a minibus laden with explosives blew up in Mogadishu on Tuesday, a local official said, the latest attack in the troubled Somali capital. The blast occurred at a checkpoint just 500 metres (yards) from the presidential palace just as the Horn of Africa country's new prime minister unveiled ...

Accra (AFP) - Ghanaian authorities have closed the popular tourist destination of Kintampo Falls after 20 people died in a tree fall tragedy, officials said Monday. A group of high school and university students were swimming on Sunday afternoon at the picturesque waterfalls in the Brong-Ahafo region, some 450 kilometres (281 miles) by road from ...

In nbsp;Haiti By Force: UN Sex Abuse,Fault Lines nbsp;speaks to Haitian women who say they were raped by UN peacekeepers there. Some of them were under-age at the time; some of them are now single mothers as a result; most described anonymous, violent attacks.

GENEVA, Switzerland, 20 March 2017,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/-Mohammed Dewji, Group CEO of MeTL (Mohammed Entreprise Tanzania Limited) takes home the prestigious CEO OF THE YEAR award and Anta Babacar Ngom Bathily of Sedima wins the award for YOUNG CEO OF THE YEAR. Mohammed Dewji beats off competition from business heavyweights across ...