“Alternative Nobel” Goes To Pacific Islands Climate Activists

Press Release – Right Livelihood Awards Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change & Chamorro Human Rights Lawyer Julian Aguon Receive Right Livelihood Award STOCKHOLM — Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change (PISFCC) and Julian...

WFP and Japan partner to provide school meals for children in Sudan

PORT SUDAN, Sudan – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a contribution of JPY 400 million (approximately US$2.7 million) from the Government of Japan. This vital funding will enable WFP to provide school meals in Sudan, which...

Kenya’s tea output falls 11.5% in first seven months of 2025 as dry weather impacts yields 

KENYA – Kenya’s tea production fell by 11.5% in the first seven months of 2025 to 322.29 million kilograms, down from 364.13 million kilograms during the same period in 2024, according to data from the Tea Board of Kenya (TBK). The decline was...

Forbes Africa features Mary Dinah Foundation for community development, philanthropy

The Mary Dinah Foundation (MDF) has been spotlighted in the October–November 2025 edition of Forbes Africa for its pioneering approach to sustainable philanthropy and community-driven development across Africa. Founded in 2005, the Foundation has...

Mary Dinah Foundation’s Drive for Healthier Africa 

Kasim Sumaina The Mary Dinah Foundation (MDF) was recently featured in Forbes Africa’s latest issue on sustainable philanthropy. Founded in 2005, the Foundation has worked where the needs are greatest, that is, in communities affected by conflict,...

Sudani Launches $450 Billion Investment Opportunities in Iraq

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani unveiled investment opportunities worth $450 billion across multiple sectors, signaling an ambitious drive to diversify the country’s economy and attract global capital. Speaking at the opening of the...

Doha Institute, SAEA shed light on Sudan food security challenges

QNA Doha The School of Economics, Administration, and Public Policy at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, in collaboration with the Sudanese Agricultural Engineers Association (SAEA) in Qatar, held a forum on the effective partnership for...

Doha Institute, SAEA host food security forum on Sudan

Doha: The School of Economics, Administration, and Public Policy at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, in collaboration with the Sudanese Agricultural Engineers Association (SAEA) in Qatar, held Saturday a forum on the effective partnership...

Climate-related Deaths Rise Sharply Across Africa: Researchers

Ethiopia recorded at least 442 deaths since 2020, twice as many as in preceding decade Extreme weather events claimed the lives of at least 442 Ethiopians in the past five years, according to a report published by an Indian public-interest...

Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change Among Winners of 2025 Right Livelihood Award

This year’s Right Livelihood Awards have been announced in Stockholm today. A student-led group from the Pacific Islands and human rights lawyer from Guam, Julian Aguon, were jointly recognized for taking their fight against climate change to the...

UN Experts Demand Urgent Action To Protect Civilians In Sudan As Conflict Intensifies

OHCHR GENEVA – UN experts* today expressed grave concern at reports of indiscriminate killings, mass displacement, sexual violence, enforced disappearance and obstruction of humanitarian assistance in Sudan, warning that the scale and severity of...

Ministry Unveils Ambitious GERD Development Plans

Experts caution irrigation schemes must be examined carefully The Ministry of Water and Energy has unveiled a conceptual master plan aimed at converting close to 30,000 square kilometers of land around the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)...

Community aid in Sudan wins world recognition

Volunteers at El-Geraif Emergency Response Room (Ayin) SUDAN – Sudan’s grassroots “Emergency Rooms” have been honored with their second major international prize in just two weeks, underscoring global recognition of the volunteers who have kept...

Sudan Launches Mass Cholera Vaccination in War-Torn Darfur

Sudan has launched an ambitious cholera vaccination campaign in Darfur targeting 1.86 million people amid a devastating outbreak that has claimed over 3,000 lives and infected more than 113,600 people nationwide, representing the longest recorded...

Feature: Sudan's capital confronts Nile's wrath in record flood

KHARTOUM, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- In the outskirts of Wad Ramli, north of Sudan's capital Khartoum, the familiar passageways have vanished. Surging Nile waters, having breached sections of earthen embankment, now invade homes, submerge courtyards, and...

Today in Africa — October 2, 2025: Morocco Youth-Led Protests Turn Deadly, UN Says 91 Killed in Sudan’s El Fasher Last Month, Kenyan Activists Abducted in Uganda

Every day, OkayAfrica shares a roundup of news we’re following but haven’t published as full articles. These short updates cover what’s happening on the continent — in culture, politics, and beyond. For more on stories like these, be sure to check...

Weather favors continued arrivals on Crete, Gavdos

The makeshift facility in Agia, in Crete’s Hania region, which is currently hosting more than 1,100 migrants, is unsuitable and operating beyond capacity. [INTIME NEWS] Migration arrivals to Greece’s southern islands, particularly Gavdos and...

In Narrow Alleys of Sudan's Capital, Volunteers Battle Dengue Fever Spread

Wed 01 Oct 2025 | 02:46 PM In the cramped, winding alleys of Khartoum, hundreds of volunteers traverse from home to home, their hands laden with spraying gear and inspection tools as they search for mosquito breeding sites, the primary...

Thousands infected as cholera and dengue spread across Sudan

Patients receive treatment in the cholera isolation centre at the refugee camps of western Sudan, in Tawila city, Darfur [AFP]SUDAN – Sudan’s health crisis has deepened as the de facto Ministry of Health in Port Sudan confirmed widespread...

Activists from Sudan receive human rights award

The Right Livelihood Award was awarded Wednesday to activists from Sudan and Myanmar, where military and political violence devastates communities, to the Pacific Islands, where climate disaster threatens entire nations, and to Taiwan, which is...