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By Girmay Gebru in Mekelle & Mercy Juma in Nairobi At least 1,400 people have starved to death in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray since food aid was suspended because it was being stolen, an official has said. The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) and the US’s leading aid agency halted food aid to Tigray about four months ago. A subsequent investigation ...

By Joe Inwood, Suzanne Leigh, and Christy Cooney More than 60 people are feared dead after a boat carrying migrants was found off Cape Verde in West Africa.  Thirty-eight people, including children, were rescued, with footage showing them being helped ashore, some on stretchers, on the island of Sal. Almost all those on board the boat, which was at sea ...

By: Sally Adee Electrical horticulture is on the horizon, as farmers search for ways to boost productivity without harming the environment. Could we all be enjoying electrified vegetables soon? The translucent orange cubes jiggle temptingly under the grow lights, looking for all the world like exotic confectionery, somewhere between gummy bears and Turkish delight. If it weren’t for the vibrant ...

Medically reviewed by the Healthline Medical Network Brian Krans  You don’t need statistics to tell you that men are more likely to avoid the doctor than women. Women are, in fact, 100 percent more likely to see a doctor for examinations, screenings, and preventive health consults, even though they’re far less likely to die from one of the top 10 causes of ...

Source: www.france24news.com/en/africa More than one million people have fled Sudan to neighbouring states and people inside the country are running out of food and dying due to lack of healthcare after four months of war, the United Nations warned on Tuesday.  Fighting between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has devastated the capital Khartoum and sparked ...

Medically reviewed by Akilah Reynolds, PhD and Sarah Garone  Between a global pandemic, social unrest, military conflicts overseas, and environmental catastrophes like wildfires and heatwaves, it’s safe to say the first 2 years of the 2020s have been pretty stressful. If you and your kids are feeling frazzled, isolated, anxious, or depressed, you aren’t alone.  As of March 2022, the World Health ...

By: Christy Cooney At least 35 people have been killed and dozens injured in an explosion at a petrol station in southern Russia. The blast occurred in the Dagestan regional capital, Makhachkala, on the coast of the Caspian Sea, at 21:40 local time (18:40 GMT) on Monday.  Pictures showed a large fire lighting up the night sky and a number ...

By Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, Washington A former Minneapolis police officer has been sentenced to 57 months (almost five years) in prison for his role in the death of George Floyd.  The officer, Tou Thao, was found guilty of aiding and abetting manslaughter by a Minnesota judge in May.  Mr Thao testified that he acted as a “human traffic ...

By Favour Nunoo BBC News, Accra The exact location of what is thought to be the first English slave fort in Africa may have been found – the BBC has been hearing about the significance of the discovery in Ghana. The archaeologist is standing in the ruins of Fort Amsterdam, speaking above the wind and roar of the Atlantic Ocean ...

By: Rustum Gameli SENORGBEA new football club to focus on juvenile football, Cosmos Football Club has been launched in Ho on Friday, June 30, 2023.Formed in 2020 by footballer, and marketing executive Emil Atando, Cosmos FC, on Friday officially outdoored its vision to stakeholders at a short ceremony at the Adonai University College of Research and Entrepreneurship. The ceremony also ...