Jamal Osman , Africa Correspondent

Around 14 million people are thought to be living with mental illness in Uganda, yet just one percent of the country’s total health expenditure goes towards mental health. 

Around 14 million people are thought to be living with mental illness in Uganda, yet just one percent of the country’s total health expenditure goes towards mental health. 

In Uganda, the encroachment of settlements into the country’s western forests has sparked a battle between humans and chimpanzees.

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, an increasingly bloody conflict between the country’s armed forces and a Tutsi militia group has displaced hundreds of thousands, and threatens to bring chaos to central Africa. 

Deadly bombings at the hands of the Al-Qaida-affiliated Al-Shabaab group have now become tragically commonplace in Somalia.

Deadly bombings at the hands of the Al-Qaida-affiliated Al-Shabaab group have now become tragically commonplace in Somalia.

Two climate emergencies – one from a deadly shortage of water; one from too much, killing and uprooting people on a vast scale.

In Ethiopia a tentative truce between the government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, known as the TPLF, has been shattered by fighting, The break in the five-month ceasefire deals a blow to any hope of peace talks to end the conflict, which has cost thousands of lives and displaced millions of people. Today, an…

At least 12 people have been killed in the Somali capital Mogadishu, after an attack by the Islamist extremist group al-Shabab. 

The resumption of Ukraine grain exports is especially important in some parts of Africa, where in many communities food security has become perilously insecure. 

In northern Ethiopia, after months of brutal fighting the government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front have reached a truce.

The East African nation was already struggling with the worst drought in half a century, a brutal civil conflict and soaring food prices.

For more than fifteen years the extremist group Al Shabaab has been fighting a bloody insurgency in Somalia.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is not only creating a huge humanitarian crisis there, but it is putting severe strain on world food supplies. 

Ethiopia’s prime minister has indicated in the past week that he is open to negotiations on a ceasefire between his government and the Tigray rebel forces after 15 months of brutal fighting and countless war crimes.