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The United Nations Refugee agency – UNHCR, says days of heavy rainfall have pelted Rohingya refugee camps in southern Bangladesh, destroying shelters and sending thousands of people to live with extended family or in communal shelters. According to the agency,…
The International Organization for Migration IOM says a boat carrying African migrants capsized off Libya’s coast Monday, leaving at least 57 people presumed dead. It was the latest disaster in the Mediterranean Sea involving migrants seeking a better life in…
Commercial Bike Riders and people tagged as illegal fuel traders in Sierra Leone have called on the authorities to allow them continue their trade saying that such a trade helps in reducing the struggles of citizens to access petrol. They…
Negotiations began on Monday to approve a UN science report which will anchor high level summits later this year, charged with boosting climate action worldwide. The assessment comes as record-breaking heat waves, devastating floods and drought struck across three continents…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has warned, in a call to all countries to transform food systems to speed up sustainable development. Up to 811 million people faced hunger in 2020 – as many as 161 million more than in 2019…
WaterAid West Africa reveals that the impact of climate change on water A new study by the NGO resources is predicted to intensify in Niger and Burkina Faso and threaten economic stability and human development if the states concerned do…
Sierra Leone has joined 119 countries in the world including 21 in Africa to abolish the death penalty. Lawmakers in the country spent almost the whole of last week deliberating the proposal put before them by Anthony Brewah, the country’s…
Liberian Health authorities have announced the arrival of a huge consignment of COVID vaccines. The arrival of the vaccines comes after the country ran out of vaccines amid growing public interest to take the vaccine. WADR’s Darlington Porkpa has a…
The Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR) in Ghana has observed, “with concern”, some characteristics of the new Delta variant of SARS-Cov-2 detected at the institute’s testing centre since April 2021. In a statement issued on Saturday, the Institute…
Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo has banned post-funeral reception services and directed that, henceforth, funeral ceremonies should not exceed two hours. According to the President, this forms part of measures put in place to curb the upsurge in the COVID-19 cases…
In Nigeria, Church officials say armed kidnappers have released 28 of the over 120 students who were abducted at the beginning of July from the Bethel Baptist High School in the northern town of Damishi, Kaduna state North Central of…
A man accused of attempting to stab Mali's interim President Assimi Goita last week has died in hospital while in the custody of security services, the government said in a statement on Sunday. Goita, a special forces colonel who orchestrated…
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