Africa

Vera Ayensu, a UN police officer from Ghana, instructs her colleagues in Wau.

Ghanaian Police Officer Vera Ayensu: “I want to be a role model for other ladies to emulate”

A young girl receiving oral cholera vaccination. Juba, South Sudan.

African countries step up fight against fake drugs

Zimbabwe ready to host & showcase itself at sustainable development forum; Minister

Africa Zimbabwe

Woman smiling and foraging

African Union Project on Malawian Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture: Cooperation with Norway and Germany

A group of five people at the leaders panel on stage at the UK-Africa Investment Summit.

First UK-Africa Investment Summit signals post-Brexit plans for continent

Africa investment

The UN refugee agency has launched cash-for-work programmes which employ youth from host communities in Awaradi, Niger, to make bricks.

FROM THE FIELD: Niger supporting the most vulnerable, as crises mount

The 2020 Humanitarian Response Plan for Somalia will support health-care projects for children and other vulnerable groups.

Somalia: Humanitarian response to assist 3 million people in 2020

Pictured is some of the damage caused to the humanitarian hub in Ngala town, Borno State, Nigeria.

Major humanitarian hub in northeast Nigeria burned in attack

Locusts can devastate crops and pastures.

East Africa locusts threaten food security across subregion, alerts UN agriculture agency

After armed clashes, a child walks among the charred ruins of Alindao, a city in the Central African Republic.

UN peacekeepers protecting hundreds displaced by Central African Republic fighting

A child runs through the debris and wreckage in downtown Benghazi, Libya.

Libya: ‘Dire and untenable’ situation for tens of thousands of children in unrelenting conflict

Implementing peace deal only path for stabilization in Mali: UN peacekeeping chief

Implementing peace deal only path for stabilization in Mali: UN peacekeeping chief