Around 52 million people in west, central Africa will face severe food stress from June-August: IRC

More than 2,500 people to face catastrophic, famine-like conditions if no urgent action is taken, organisation warns

Kenyan green court dismisses lawsuit challenging government decision to allow import of GM crops

Ruling likely to have far-reaching ramifications, including informing policy across the East and Central Africa region

Equatorial Guinea confirms first-ever Marburg virus outbreak, Cameroon on alert

Urgent meeting on Marburg virus by WHO today

World Rainforest Day: Goliath frogs need urgent conservation measures

Goliath frog population is estimated to have halved in the last 15 years

'Climate change to impact suitability of tropical agricultural lands by 2100'

Suitability will shift to higher latitudes of the northern hemisphere

Central Africa can develop sustainably only with environmental protection, social equity: Report

Central Africa is seeing an acceleration in oil extraction, mining and forestry, that is putting pressure on ecosystems

Researchers re-animate 70-year-old coffee killer fungus in Africa: Study

Coffee wilt disease, caused by a fungus Fusarium xylarioides, has led to devastating outbreaks in sub-Saharan Africa since the 1920s

Mount Nyiragongo’s volcano: why it’s unique and treacherous

The local and national governments in the area around the volcano need to be more aware of the risks from tectonic rifting and from the volcano

Next COVID-19 variant of concern could come from Africa’s Great Lakes region: Study

Risk model by health analytics firm, Airfinity also names Nigeria, Yemen and South Asia as possible sources    

The future of the chimpanzee

On the first-ever World Chimpanzee Day, we should consider the ways we can ensure that future human generations can enjoy sharing the earth with …

Indigenous trees at risk of disappearing in central Africa

Researchers say that human activity has been crucial for young trees to mature in the world's second largest rainforest

Significant increase in rainfall in north, central Africa: Study

Almost all regions of the continent, except the south and east, showed a significant increase in annual rainfall from 1983 to 2020    

North African countries doing the most work on SDGs on the continent: report

Tunisia has been ranked the first in a continent-wide index as far as progress on SDGs is concerned

Africa will see ‘tremendous rise’ in cooling demand if world breaches climate targets: Study

Raising investments for meeting increased energy demand for cooling will be a key challenge for many African countries

More humans means less Great Apes, says first pan-African assessment

Agriculture, linear infrastructure, population density and even GDP and corruption influence Great Ape densities in Africa

African countries differ widely in prenatal HIV testing: why it matters

Closing the gaps in coverage of HIV testing in sub-Saharan Africa will require, among other things, a massive investment in health systems in …

Inaccessibility of agri-automation to small-scale producers can deepen inequalities: FAO

Agriculture reliant on human and animal power continues to dominate in sub-Saharan Africa

Lake Chad Basin: 1.4 million children displaced; many suffer from malnutrition

About 67,000 children under five are likely to die in Nigeria’s Borno and Yobe states in September

Yellow fever burden to shift to central and east Africa by 2050: Study

Number of deaths to likely increase 25 per cent; projected to further accelerate in the two regions after 2050

Climate change may aid spread of Lassa fever from west to east Africa by 2070: Report

The number of people at risk of exposure to Lassa fever in Africa would increase by 600%, according to new study

For forest elephants in Central Africa, no place is safe from poaching

A recent study shows a 78-81 per cent decline in elephant population from the most protected area in Central Africa over a period of ten years

Just 4 doses of pain relievers available daily per million people in west, central Africa: UN

This means that people with severe pain, especially the terminally ill are most-affected in these regions

Wildlife Week: Trade in bones, taxonomic reclassification potential threats for Asiatic lions

Vying for attention with the greatly championed and more widespread Indian tigers, Asiatic lions may be fighting a difficult battle

Air pollution as serious a threat as communicable diseases in Africa: Report

Average life expectancy in central, west Africa would be 1.2 years lower, and a total of 677 million person-years would be lost, if high …

More than 19 mln people can face food insecurity in west, central Africa: Report

People more likely to die of starvation caused by the economic fallout of COVID-19 pandemic than the disease itself, says the report