Authorities warn number of victims to increase as thousands are forced from their homes by the bad weather.

At least 429 people have died in Saturday's tsunami, while at least 128 are still missing.

Rescuers in Indonesia are using drones and sniffer dogs to search for survivors after a powerful tsunami devastated the shorelines of the islands of Java and Sumatra and killed more than 400 people

After 38 years, Nigeria’s parliament has finally approved $1bn to revive one of Africa's biggest steel plants.

Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have approved clinical trials for four experimental Ebola treatments, even as the deadly disease's outbreak among newborn babies raises new

The battle against malaria appears to have stalled. The World Health Organization says the number of cases around the world is still rising.

The UN children’s agency says at least two million children in the Democratic Republic of Congo face death from malnutrition unless aid reaches them.

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is expected to last another three to four months and could spread at any time to Uganda or Rwanda, the World Health Organization (WH

In South Sudan, there is only one head surgeon who serves a population of 200,000 in the country's northeastern region

He is this year's winner of the UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award.

South Africa rejected a tweet by Donald Trump about the country's land reform policy and the "large scale killing" of farmers saying the US president was "misinformed".

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