UN and Africa

Very significant shock” of lower oil prices in Africa

Islamist militant from Mali pleads guilty to Timbuktu war crimes

South Sudan Olympians say “being a refugee is only a status”

This week's special programme focus on the political, humanitarian and health crisis facing South Sudan.

In an exclusive interview with the UN Mission’s radio station in South Sudan, Radio Miraya, UN relief chief, Stephen O’Brien - who spent three days in the country seeing conditions for himself - said that all parties, political and humanitarian, needed to “work together, fast and hard, for peace”.

Boko Haram crisis has “devastated” Lake Chad region’s economy

The security and humanitarian crisis brought on by the Boko Haram terrorist group across Africa’s Lake Chad Basin has “devastated” the region’s economy. That’s according to Jeffrey Feltman, UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, briefing the UN Security Council on Wednesday.

Over 6.5 million people in Malawi in need of emergency food aid 

Security Council action needed to permanently end South Sudan violence

Sahel suffers poverty, climate change and violent extremism: UN

A Ugandan women who was abducted at age eleven and then forced to become the wife of one of Africa’s most feared and brutal warlords has been speaking about her experiences at the launch of her memoir, I am Evelyn Amony: Reclaiming My Life from the Lord’s Resistance Army in New York, an event hosted by the UN gender agency, UN Women.

Evelyn Amony is one of the more than 60,000 children who were abducted in east and central Africa in the 1990s by the violent rebel group also known as the LRA.

Lord’s Resistance Army attacks in CAR have “notably increased”