Africa

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Ban welcomes 'peaceful and orderly' elections in Tanzania

Africa Tanzania

Young Somali men participate in a vocational training and education program in Burao, Somaliland. But as Africa’s population grows, the number of people escaping conflict in countries like Somalia will continue to rise. Photo: UNDP Somalia

Bashi's journey may signal a bigger refugee crisis to come

Africa refugees

A family of farmers watch as locust-control workers spray pesticides on their land in Madagascar’s Betroka region. Photo: FAO/Yasuyoshi Chiba

UN agencies warn of deteriorating food security in Southern Madagascar

Une pompe à eau fonctionnant à l’énergie solaire est utilisée pour irriguer la ferme communautaire, assurant à la fois un approvisionnement en eau constant sur l’ensemble du terrain agricole et une source d’eau potable pour les habitants du village. Photo

A new window of hope in Sudan

Families board a flight at Laayoune, Western Sahara, before departure for Tindouf in Algeria (April 2012).

UN agencies boost aid efforts to flood-hit Tindouf refugees, call for urgent funding

UN Photo/Martine Perret (file)

Ban urges dialogue to ease tensions ahead of constitutional referendum in Republic of Congo

Africa Republic of Congo

A health worker measures a baby girl’s arm, at an outpatient therapeutic feeding centre at the Protection of Civilians site on the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) base in Malakal, capital of Upper Nile State. Photo: UNICEF/Christine Nesbit

South Sudan: UN calls for immediate access to conflict-affected areas to prevent 'catastrophe'

The St Michel church and adjacent priest’s house were torched during protests in Bangui sparked by the killing of a Muslim man. Photo: Crispin Dembassa-Kette/IRIN

Central African Republic: Security Council condemns violence, reiterates decision to apply sanctions

Africa Central African Republic

Une distribution de nourriture du PAM dans l’école primaire de St. Matthew, dans le district de Chikwawa, au Malawi, le pays le plus touché d’Afrique australe par l’insécurité alimentaire. Photo : PAM / David Orr

UN agencies expand operations in southern Africa as poor harvests deepen food insecurity

Africa food insecurity

Special Representative and Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Bernardino Léon (shown on screen), briefs the Security Council.

Libya: Security Council urges parties to endorse and sign political agreement

Une distribution de nourriture du PAM à Bangui, en République centrafricaine.

Central African Republic: UN agency delivers food aid to thousands displaced by recent violence in capital

Women in Assouba, rural Côte d’Ivoire, preparing igname (yam) to sell. UN Photo/Patricia Esteve

‘Rural women are the backbone of sustainable livelihoods,’ Ban declares on International Day

Africa International Day of Rural Women