Authors of a new report on Africa’s climate warn the continent is heating up more and faster than other regions in the world, and they said Africa needs immediate financial and technological assistance to adapt to the warming environment.The African co…
Medical/Health Care
Witnesses Say Civilians Killed as Airstrikes Hit Tigray Capital
Witnesses in Ethiopia’s Tigray region said at least two people were killed and several others were injured in two airstrikes Monday carried out by government forces on the regional capital, Mekelle.Residents who spoke to VOA’s Tigrigna Service said the…
Volunteers in the Sky Watch Over Migrant Rescues by Sea
As dozens of African migrants traversed the Mediterranean Sea on a flimsy white rubber boat, a small aircraft circling 1,000 feet above closely monitored their attempt to reach Europe.The twin-engine Seabird, owned by the German non-governmental organi…
Women Left Behind: Gender Gap Emerges in Africa’s Vaccines
The health outreach workers who drove past Lama Mballow’s village with a megaphone handed out T-shirts emblazoned with the words: “I GOT MY COVID-19 VACCINE!”By then, the women in Sare Gibel already had heard the rumors on social media: The vaccines co…
Zimbabwe Government: No COVID-19 Shot, No Work, No Pay
Union leaders have angrily reacted to the Zimbabwean government’s announcement Sunday that workers who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 will no longer be allowed at work and will not be paid. This is seen as part of efforts to deal with high v…
Nigerian Military Says Leader of IS-linked Group is Dead
Nigeria’s military claimed Thursday that Abu Musab al-Barnawi, the leader of an Islamic State-linked extremist group blamed for killing hundreds in the northeast, had died. There was no immediate confirmation from the militants.At a news conference, Ni…