The desert floor in Ethiopia looks fixed and ancient, but it is moving. Across the Afar region and down the East African Rift ...

The Kenya Meteorological Department has forecast continued rainfall across several parts of the country, including the Highlands East and West of the Rift Valley, the Lake Victoria Basin, the Rift ...

President Adama Barrow and opposition leader Ousainu Darboe both used Eid-ul-Adha messages last week to urge Gambians to safeguard peace and tolerance ahead of a pivotal election year.Speaking after ...

Survivors of a fire that killed at least 16 students at Utumishi Girls’ Academy in Gilgil, Nakuru County, Kenya, have said dormitory doors were locked from inside as panic spread through the school ...

Angry maize farmers in the North Rift on Tuesday stormed the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) depot in Eldoret, ...

For decades, ecologists have theorized that the extinction of one important species could set off a chain reaction of losses ...

Learn more about the deadly 2026 Ebola outbreak, including how many cases there are so far, which countries are most affected, how this outbreak compares with others in severity and more.

Ethiopian communities are cheaply filling destructive gullies with soil, stones and branches and replanting them to stop ...

A remote gold mining town is under siege, as medical workers struggle to beat back a surge of deaths and infections.