Kenya Seeks to Boost Girls’ Education by Providing Free Sanitary Products Menstruation often means missing school for many girls in parts of Africa. But should the state provide sanitary products to… 06/19/2018 Aimaf
Hundreds of Thousands of Child Migrants Detained Across Globe, Reports Say Some 50 million migrant children worldwide were living in other countries or were still living in their native countries after… 06/19/2018 Aimaf
Mali Says Some Soldiers Implicated After Mass Graves Found Mali said on Tuesday that some of its soldiers were implicated in "gross violations" after the discovery of some mass… 06/19/2018 Aimaf
Ultra-Secure Lab in Gabon Equipped for Ebola Studies At a research facility in Gabon, one isolated building stands behind an electrified fence, under round-the-clock scrutiny by video cameras.… 06/19/2018 Aimaf
Al-Shabab Kills 8 Kenyan Security Personnel Eight Kenyan security personnel were killed in an attack by al-Shabab fighters Sunday in northeastern Wajir County. The area has… 06/18/2018 Aimaf
Cold and Tired, But Extremely Happy on Highest Point of Africa Seven-year-old Montannah Kenney has become the youngest girl to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Climbing Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in… 06/18/2018 Aimaf
Clashes Over Sand Mining Kill 2 in Gambia A long-standing dispute over sand mining spawned violent clashes Monday in Gambia, with two people killed and others — including… 06/18/2018 Aimaf
Funds Slow to Come to Anti-Jihadist Sahel Force, says Niger A joint military force to fight jihadists and organized crime in the Sahel has chalked up successes but promised funding… 06/18/2018 Aimaf
For Some African Soccer Players, Russia is a Field of Broken Dreams As soccer's top stars chase World Cup glory in Russia, some young African players lured to the country by scouts… 06/17/2018 Aimaf
Blast Kills 31 in Northern Nigeria Nigerian authorities say suicide bombings have killed at least 31 people in the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno. The blasts… 06/17/2018 Aimaf
Congo’s Ebola Outbreak Poses Challenges for Bush Meat For 25 years, Patrick Matondo has earned a living buying and selling monkeys, bats and other animals popularly known as… 06/17/2018 Aimaf
Kenya’s President Mandates Lifestyle Audit for Public Servants Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has intensified his war on graft by announcing that all public servants will undergo a compulsory… 06/16/2018 Aimaf
Spain Rescues More Than 900 Migrants in Mediterranean Spain's coast guard said it rescued more than 930 migrants and recovered four dead bodies Friday and Saturday in the… 06/16/2018 Aimaf
Ethiopian Prime Minister Visits Somalia The new Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed, has arrived in the Somali capital Mogadishu amid tight security. Ahmed was… 06/16/2018 Aimaf
Ethiopia, Somalia Agree to Strengthen ‘Brotherly’ Relations New Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi "Farmajo" Mohamed agreed Saturday to "strengthen their brotherly bilateral… 06/16/2018 Aimaf
Egypt Fuel Prices Jump Under Austerity Measures Egypt announced Saturday steep increases in fuel and cooking gas prices as part of the country’s economic reforms and austerity… 06/16/2018 Aimaf
South African Power Outages Enter 2nd Day South Africa suffered power outages for a second day Friday as workers protested over wages at national electricity provider Eskom,… 06/16/2018 Aimaf
South Sudan Wants New Site for Peace Talks South Sudan's government says it wants a planned meeting between President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar to take… 06/15/2018 Aimaf
Cameroon Families Search for Repatriated Migrants Families are in search of loved ones among the more than 2,000 Cameroonian migrants who were rescued in Libya and… 06/15/2018 Aimaf
Former Congolese Child Soldier Works to Normalize Peace Not War Michel Chikwanine is a long way from where he grew up in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, but not from… 06/15/2018 Aimaf