Human Security

Three health workers were killed and several injured in attacks on two Ebola response centres in eastern Congo, authorities and health services said. Violence...

An Egyptian military court sentenced top Islamist militant suspect Hisham al-Ashmawy to death after convicting him of orchestrating several high-profile attacks, the armed forces...

Andries Tatane died in April 2011 when the South African Police Service (SAPS) shot him at close range with rubber bullets during a protest...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) evacuated staff working on the Ebola epidemic from Beni in Democratic Republic of...

A Moroccan court sentenced a rap star to a year in prison and a fine of 1 000 dirhams ($103) for insulting police...

About 360 people are at potential risk of Ebola after contact with an infected person in eastern Congo and many are out of reach...

Authorities rescued 64 victims of human trafficking and people smuggling during an Interpol co-ordinated operation in Mali. The victims – mostly women and girls –...

Sudan’s most prominent Islamist politician was arrested after being summoned for questioning over former leader Omar al-Bashir’s rise to power in a 1989 coup,...

Violent attacks by extremists “almost every day” in the Sahel nations Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso displaced nearly a million people and caused emergency...

In the drive towards universal health coverage, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the African Union (AU) Commission cemented a mutual commitment to global...