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The Earth is getting hotter and extreme weather events are becoming more common. It’s bad news for our lives. We break down how climate change links to poor health.

Countries in central and sub-Saharan Africa will be hit the hardest by heat waves as climate change ramps up. What can Africans do to survive?

Strong winds, trees being cut down and drought drive sand to pile up and swallow the houses of the ancient seaside town Hobyo, Somalia. Will promises to green the desert save families who have been forced to move before?

“Dhaqan celis” was a term used by Somalis that used to mean the practice of going back home to stay with relatives and learn more about your culture. But it’s taken on a whole new – much darker – meaning. Read more on this practice.

Somalia is facing a humanitarian crisis. Many people have been displaced due to climate change-induced droughts, and conflict between the army and al-Shabaab has left many regions without food.

Africa’s ports are vulnerable to crime and corruption. Now they’re set to be the main thoroughfare for COVID vaccines entering the continent. Here’s why we need a better strategy to curb potential counterfeits coming through.

25,000 grave violations were committed against children in conflict in 2019, says the UN, which hopes to highlight issue with new international day.

Doctors in this country are saying an outbreak of mysterious deaths all have one thing in common: How close they are to this international oil company.

When governments fail and health systems falter, aid agencies take over. But who holds them accountable?

Unsafe in Somalia and unwanted in Kenya, refugees increasingly risk abduction in search of a better life.

Few governments are prepared to care for the people forced to leave their countries as a result of conflict or climate change. Here's why.

In many ways, violence is like cholera, passing from person to person and treating it in similar ways is working to reduce it.

When Ella and her cousin reached a refugee camp in Sudan, it seemed to herald safety. Instead, it was the start of an all too familiar ordeal.

A disease that claims the lives of two children under five a minute worldwide has hit drought-stricken Kenya hard, its spread driven by malnutrition.

More than 1 000 Nigerians languish on death row.

War-torn Somalia spent more than two decades without a working Parliament, so why are Somalis happier than South Africans?