The United Nations refugee agency is reporting a sharp increase in the number of Africans being smuggled from Somalia to Yemen across the Gulf of Aden.

The United Nations Security Council has authorized a European Union peacekeeping force to help protect civilians in Chad and the Central African Republic from violence in neighboring Sudan.

As more details emerge on the extent of the floods that are devastating large areas of Africa, further appeals are being made by international relief agencies.

A state of emergency was declared in Uganda Thursday as a result of severe flood. Uganda is among the nations hardest-hit by floods that have swept across 17 countries in Africa in recent weeks. At least 200 people have been killed across the continent, and hundreds of thousands displaced.

Somali leaders have signed a reconciliation agreement negotiated during the government's recent national peace conference.

Bisi Ojediran, the author of the bestseller, "The Governor's Wife", has dedicated his new Peter Abel novel to Dr. Mo Ibrahim.

In 2006, the World Health Organization issued a report that a critical shortage of doctors and nurses has contributed to severe health problems in Africa and parts of Asia. The report said at least four million more medical personnel were needed in developing countries around the world. Has anything changed since that report?

Somali Islamists and opposition leaders continue their meeting in the Eritrean capital, Asmara. The gathering comes shortly after the end of a six-week reconciliation conference in Mogadishu sponsored by the Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG). Many opposition members refused to attend.

Trypanosoma are a nasty class of single-celled parasites that cause serious, even fatal, diseases in human and animals. Two species cause sleeping sickness, a disease that threatens all of sub–Saharan Africa. There’s a catch though: one parasite, Trypanosoma brucei brucei (T. b. brucei), infects animals but seems to spare humans, and scientists haven’t quite understood why.

In studies aiming to understand better the emergence and persistence of cholera in Africa, IRD and CNRS researchers showed the strong correlation that exists between outbreaks and the different parameters linked to climate changes in West Africa.

At least eight people have been killed and 26 wounded in gunbattles between security forces and insurgents in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and the Climate Systems Analysis Group at the University of Cape Town are launching a global computing effort to improve regional climate models in order to make better projections about what effects a changing climate will have in Africa.