Africa

Almost 2,000 stranded Chadian students are receiving assistance from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to return home safely from Cameroon. IOM...

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a disbursement of SDR146.668 million (about US$200.4 million, 78.6 percent of quota)...

The justice sector was quick to act after Kenya reported its first case of COVID-19 on 12 March 2020. Within three days,...

S&P Global Rating published its annual assessment of the African Trade Insurance Agency’s (ATI) performance reaffirming the company’s creditor rating of ‘A’...

The President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security...

The World Bank approved today $273 million in International Development Association (IDA)* financing for Togo, Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger to facilitate...

The Minister of Public Health today visited April 28, 2020 at the Specialized Care Centers, recently created by order of the Prime...

Lessons learned from the global response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic give positive signals on how the world can deal with the...

The World Bank today approved additional financing of $10.4 million from the International Development Association (IDA)* to support Benin's efforts to fight...

The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus outbreak could exceed 74,000 by August, according to the University of Washington's predictive model, often...

The number of new coronavirus cases in Russia climbed on Tuesday to 6,411, a record daily rise, bringing its nationwide tally to...

Some children in the United Kingdom with no underlying health conditions have died from a rare inflammatory syndrome which researchers believe to...