Climate Change And The Looming Humanitarian Crisis In West Africa -By Nkiru Okparuba Jude

The West African region, already burdened by insecurity, poverty, and weak infrastructure, is now facing an even more devastating threat—climate change. From the advancing Sahara desert in Niger and Mali to the rising sea levels along the Nigerian...

Gallup: Morocco Ranks Tenth Globally in Anger Levels

Rabat – The Gallup World’s Emotional Health 2025 identified Morocco as one of the top countries that experiences the highest levels of reported anger globally in 2024. The report, released in partnership with the World Health Summit, said that 39%...

Accra Arts and Craft Market opens for second edition with regional flair

The second edition of the the International Accra Arts and Crafts Market has opened at the W.E.B. Du Bois Memorial Centre for Pan-African Culture in Cantonments with over 30 exhibitors from across Africa participating. The event, which will run...

The Spreading Fire Of Insecurity In Nigeria And The Sahel -By Princess Jane Simon

Across Nigeria and the wider Sahel region, insecurity has evolved into a complex humanitarian and political crisis that now threatens the very existence of communities and the stability of entire nations. What began more than a decade ago as a...

UNHCR Sounds Alarm on Escalating Displacement Crisis in Africa’s Sahel Region

Geneva, October 11, 2025 – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) issued an urgent call for international support on Friday to address the worsening displacement crisis in Africa’s Sahel region, where approximately 4 million...

Ranked: The World’s Oldest People in History

Mapped: Life Expectancy Around the World (2025) This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven charts from a variety of trusted sources. Key Takeaways Monaco has the...

Rapid diagnostics test can detect asymptomatic malaria cases

Researchers have adapted a rapid diagnostic technology that is able to identify undetected cases of malaria, helping tackle the spread of disease. A team of scientists from Imperial College London, the MRC Unit The Gambia, the Clinical Research...

Northern Accelerated Company: Unleashing Northern Ghana’s Fu...

Northern Ghana is a region of extraordinary promise and paradox. It boasts vast fertile plains, abundant sunshine, rivers, and mineral potential, yet remains among the least industrialized and most infrastructure-deprived parts of Ghana. Decades...

Questions Over Vibe, Rolling Stone Partnership

Questions Over Vibe, Rolling Stone Partnership: Some Worry About ‘Erasure’ of Black Identity Inadequate Support for Journos Covering Tragedy Short Takes: Reporting slows stops of Black drivers; Bay Area end of access to police radios; no Blacks...

In the African Sahel, conflicts and climate change force millions of people from their homes

This figure represents a two-thirds increase in displacement over the past five years, with Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger the epicenter of overlapping humanitarian crises. “Across the central Sahel, people are being driven from their homes by...

UAE open Jiu-Jitsu Youth World Championships with eight medals

The UAE picked up eight medals including three golds on the opening day of the Jiu-Jitsu International Federation (JJIF) Youth World Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan, on Tuesday. Ahmed Al Shamsi claimed the first gold for the UAE in the 42kg...

Sounders’ Pedro de la Vega carted off during win over New York City FC

The Sounders weren’t supposed to suffer any consequences Saturday. The club entered their road match against New York City FC locked into the fifth seed in the Western Conference playoff standings. So, the outcome didn’t matter. Before 30 minutes...

Surging Jihadist Violence Batters the Sahel, Exposing Government Weakness

By Arezki Daoud: A surge in jihadist violence has rocked the Sahel region through late September and early October 2025, disrupting lives from the deserts of northern Burkina Faso to the scrublands of northeastern Nigeria. Militants have overrun...

Sahel United In Breaking French Hegemony In The Region

Support SouthFront Click to see the full-size image Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher In recent years, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger have forged one of the strongest alliances among African...

[UN; Oct.17] Pita Returns to Gaza, New Human Rights Council Members & Much More

UN Relief Chief Tom Fletcher, right, visited the Gaza strip for the first time, on Oct. 17, to assess the humanitarian situation in the ceasefire. Here, he stops at Castle Bakery, a World Food Program-supported business providing fuel and...

Madagascar’s President Was Ousted After Youth Protests. Now What?

Two days after the ouster of Madagascar’s president, the desperate conditions that led the country’s young people to rise up in mass protest were as evident as their anger. At the University of Antananarivo in the capital city, the smell of sewage...

Recognizing 65 years of the Peace Corps: A bipartisan call to service

As our nation prepares to celebrate 250 years since its founding, the nearly quarter-million people who have served in the Peace Corps are marking a milestone launched 65 years ago, on Oct. 14, 1960. × In the early hours of that morning, then...

Africa’s floods and droughts are messing with our minds. Researchers are trying to figure out how

The parched earth opened in jagged cracks. But it was the dead cows on the side of the road that did it. By October of 2014, the government had declared a state of emergency in KwaZulu-Natal. The prolonged drought left some 40 000 cattle dead,...

Lecornu mark 2 – a government at war with working people

Lecornu 2 is a pure Macronist government, made up of technocrats, former Macron advisors, and also those under criminal investigation: Rachida Dati from the Culture Ministry soon to be tried for corruption and influence peddling; Vincent Jeanbrun,...

Reimagining Commercial Underwriting in the Age of AI

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