News across the continent
The IPC warned on 12 October that famine risk was intensifying across Greater Darfur and Greater Kordofan. A 57% funding gap in Sudan's humanitarian response plan is limiting the aid that could reach them.
Attacks on civilians, climate shocks and dwindling aid money are forcing families from their homes in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. The UN's refugee agency warned that international attention is now receding from the crisis.
Protesters looted foreign-owned shops and besieged a refugee centre, fired up by false claims that a court ruling would give undocumented migrants automatic legal status. The South African government said on Friday it would change how it complies with the ruling.
Global donor aid dropped 23 percent in 2025 — the steepest annual fall on record — and Africa bore more than its share. Women and children are losing access to health services as US cuts gut HIV and maternal health programmes across the continent.
Ursula von der Leyen announced the package in New York as the 81st UN General Assembly High-Level Week drew to a close. The EU said it would also boost emergency aid for people affected by conflict in the Middle East and Ukraine, though no disbursement timetable was given.
The Treasury Department removed six designations on 18 September 2026, including Eritrea's Defence Forces and ruling party. The move followed the automatic lapse of an emergency order Biden signed in 2021 over the conflict in northern Ethiopia.
A mound of rubbish at the Dar es Salam landfill in Conakry collapsed in the early hours of Sunday after heavy rain, burying homes and shacks nearby. The site had been officially designated for closure that same day — and had already killed 10 people in a similar landslide in 2017.
All seven on board died when the aircraft went down near Mount Ololokwe in Samburu County. Among the dead is Jose Alberto Suarez, a senior NBCUniversal executive, and Michele Sensi-Contugi, Ecuador's national intelligence director, who was travelling with his wife.
The West African country will receive migrants from Africa, the Americas and the Caribbean removed by the US over 12 months. The first group of 20 is due to arrive on Thursday.
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