Tanzania has banned all agricultural imports from South Africa and Malawi in the latest episode of a growing trade row.
"We are taking this step to protect our business interests. This is business - in business, we must all respect each other," (...)
France is to hold a day of national mourning after Cyclone Chido devastated its Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte earlier this month.
French President Emmanuel Macron called for the nationwide remembrance during his visit to the island last week — (...)
FIFA revealed the nominees for The Best FIFA Football Awards 2024 on Friday, highlighting football's brightest stars across men's and women's categories. The awards will feature fan voting, which is open on FIFA.com until December 10.
Best Men's (...)
Two individuals aboard a Zimbabwean privately owned aircraft that crashed into Lake Malawi on Tuesday have been found dead, a local government official confirmed.
The victims include a Zimbabwean pilot and a Dutch national, according to Ben (...)
MAKKAH — The Muslim World League (MWL) has unveiled one of its largest water projects in Africa, in the country of Malawi. MWL Secretary General Sheikh Mohammed Al-Issa, Malawi's First Lady Monica Chakwera, Minister of Water and Sanitation Abida (...)
An aircraft carrying Malawi's Vice President Saulos Chilima and nine others has gone missing, a statement from the president's office said.
The Malawi Defense Force aircraft "went off the radar" after it left the capital, Lilongwe, on Monday (...)
Top UN officials launched a fresh global campaign to tackle the climate emergency on Tuesday, with social media influencers, Indigenous leaders and corporate giants showing what they've done and what's to come.
The Climate Promise 2025 aims to (...)
A deadly heatwave in West Africa and the Sahel was "impossible" without human-induced climate change, scientists say.
Temperatures soared above 48C in Mali last month with one hospital linking hundreds of deaths to the extreme heat.
Researchers say (...)
Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has declared a national disaster to tackle the prolonged drought crisis.
Mnangagwa said on Wednesday the country needs $2bn (£1.6bn) to tackle hunger caused by low rainfall which has wiped out about half of (...)
JEDDAH — On behalf of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman, Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman received the credentials of a number of ambassadors of friendly countries accredited to the Kingdom in a ceremony held at (...)
The world's first routine vaccine program against malaria has started in Cameroon, in a move projected to save thousands of children's lives across Africa.
The symbolic first jab was given to a baby girl named Daniella at a health facility near (...)
Advocates showcased the devastating impacts of climate upheaval on their communities at COP 28 on Monday as the focus of the world's largest climate gathering turned to financial support for those most at risk — first and foremost youth and women in (...)
Delegates at COP28 in Dubai on Saturday called for stronger and more resilient global health systems, which are indispensable to protecting populations from the negative impacts of climate change on health.
Ahead of the first ever 'Health Day' at a (...)
The Chief Executive Officer of the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD), Sultan Al-Marshad, inked 14 new development loan agreements on Thursday with ministers from 12 African nations.
These agreements, totaling over $580 million, aim to finance crucial (...)
More people globally are being affected by disasters than ever before, despite the adoption of a UN-backed international disaster reduction agreement in 2015.
Experts from around the world are gathering at UN Headquarters to speed up efforts to (...)
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has expressed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's condolences to the governments of the Republic of Malawi and the Republic of Mozambique, and to the families of the victims of the hurricane that hit the two countries and (...)
Two soldiers have spent the night on a tree-top in flood-devastated Malawi to avoid being swept away by the powerful currents of a river below them.
The soldiers were on a mission to rescue flood survivors when their boat capsized, forcing them to (...)
At least 99 people were confirmed dead on Monday after Cyclone Freddy slammed into southern Malawi, the country's Commissioner for Disaster Management Affairs, Charles Kalemba, told CNN.
Most of the deaths happened in Blantyre, Malawi's commercial (...)
At least 190 people are now confirmed dead in Malawi after Tropical Storm Freddy ripped through southern Africa for the second time in a month.
Terrifying amounts of brown water have cascaded through neighborhoods, sweeping away homes. Malawi's (...)
Mozambique is being lashed by rain, powerful winds and flooding as Cyclone Freddy makes landfall for the second time in a month.
The southern African nation has received more than a year's worth of rainfall in the past four weeks.
Freddy may become (...)
Minister of Hajj and Umrah Dr. Tawfiq bin Fawzan Al-Rabiah today concluded his official visit to Malaysia by stressing that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is looking forward to welcoming 31,600 pilgrims from Malaysia during the Hajj season of 1444 (...)
A global surge of cholera cases has put one billion people in 43 countries at risk, the World Health Organization (WHO) cautioned this week.
Three countries, this week alone, have reported outbreaks, WHO cholera team leader Philippe Barboza told (...)
Tropical cyclone Freddy, one of the longest-lasting systems in the southern hemisphere, slammed into Mozambique on Friday, as UN agencies helped residents with early action.
Accurate early warnings and early action on the ground helped limit loss of (...)
More than 33 million children in several southern African countries have been vaccinated against polio as part of ongoing efforts to eradicate the infectious paralytic disease that has been largely contained in most of the world, the World Health (...)
With the global population now at eight billion and growing, action or inaction by the world's largest economies, the G20, will be critical to determine if everyone gets to live on a peaceful and healthy planet, UN Secretary-General António Guterres (...)
