Ethiopia has declared an outbreak of acute watery diarrhea, also known as AWD, in the country's Somali region, where people are already struggling to cope with a persistent drought. Dr. Akpaka Kalu, th...

New York, US (PANA) ? UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Stephen O'Brien on Tuesday released US$18.5 million from the organization's Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to enable critical aid for more...

Oil company Erin Energy has executed a drilling services contract with Pacific Drilling for the use of the Pacific Bora drillship offshore Nigeria. The drillship was hired for drilling operations on th...

Rome (AFP) - Five people remained missing on Sunday after scores of migrants in an inflatable boat were rescued in turbulent waters off the coast of Libya overnight. About 122 of the migrants were save...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Under Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Herve Ladsous on Thursday said armed fighting over land, water and other natural resources in Sudan's Darfur region have co...

A second poor rainy season in Somalia has pushed livestock herders in the drought-hit Puntland region to trek an average of 60 km (40 miles) to fetch drinking water, aid agencies said on Monday, callin...

New York, US (PANA) - With nearly 400,000 children facing starvation and citizens suffering with little or no protection, security, food or access to clean water, Nigeria is facing the worst humanitari...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) ? Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday sent a request to the National Assembly to borrow US$29.9 billion in the next three years (2016-2018) to finance projects includin...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Human rights group Amnesty International is asking the authorities in Nigeria?s Lagos State to "immediately abandon" plans to demolish all irregular structures in waterfront com...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) ? Sudan, Ethiopia and Egypt, have agreed to ask two French companies to conduct further studies on the impact of the huge Ethiopian water dam, the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam...