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Cash from the Scottish Government is to be used to develop cholera vaccine testing in parts of Africa ...

Sam Rose warns of severe consequences amid weakened US stance and points to ICJ demand that aid efforts be protected

Only about 57 trucks a day entered Gaza in October as against US demand that Israel allow 350 trucks to enter the battered and besieged Palestinian territory

Africa continues to grapple with plastic pollution, a waste crisis, and limited investment, activists report, as discussions unfold at the UN climate meetings in Azerbaijan. To shed light on these overlapping challenges, RFI interviewed campaigners and negotiators from across the continent.

Incoming first lady has shunned Jill Biden’s invitation to the White House

Hundreds of Indonesians fled for higher ground Wednesday as they ran through disaster drills in the region worst hit by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami ahead of its 20th anniversary next month.

Global leaders offered competing views on how to tackle climate change at UN-led talks Wednesday as a new report warned the world must reach carbon neutrality much sooner than planned.

Johan Grimonprez’s fascinating documentary suggests that the US used jazz legend Louis Armstrong in a ‘cool war’ offensive to assassinate Patrice Lumumba

Conservation status for warm-water reef-building corals was analysed for the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List.