The UN children's fund warned Tuesday that a funding gap and the start of winter could leave nearly one million children out in the cold in the Middle East and North Africa. Years of conflict, displacement and unemployment have reduced familiesâ financial resources to almost nothing. Staying warm has simply become unaffordable, said Geert ...

Niger has ordered the closure of two centres run by British charity Marie Stopes International on grounds it was illegally performing abortions, the health minister told AFP on Tuesday. We have decided to close this charity on grounds of a 2006 law which bans abortions, said Health Minister Idi Illiassou. Our inquiries have shown that this ...

The rising star of Nigerian politics, Kingsley Moghalu, vows to end the oil curse with his 2019 presidential bid while Sierra Leone's new Unity Party engages in a daring battle for women's rights. Youth-driven political parties have sprung up across Africa in the wake of growing political awareness about the ravages of bad governance. This ...