The Sudanese government and the main rebel group in Darfur have signed a ceasefire, which, it is hoped, will lead to a formal peace in the region.

Three leading aid groups working to bring relief to the people of Haiti have appealed for an end to the adoption of children from the Caribbean country, saying that many children have become separated from their families but are not orphans.

Sudan has called for UN and African Union (AU) peacekeepers to withdraw from Darfur. The country’s UN ambassador, Abdalmahmoud Abdalhaleem, rejected a UN report criticizing conditions in Darfur.

A controversial new study that looks at the effects of climate change on global conflicts says that Africa is about to experience a surge in civil wars.

New Zealand, Denmark, Singapore, Sweden and Switzerland are among the top five least corrupt nations, according to a new survey released by Transparency International. Canada is in the top ten. Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq and Sudan are the most corrupt.

Despite readily available vaccines, death rate of sickle-cell anemia in African children remains to be a growing concern, researchers said Thursday.

In Nigeria, polio the alarming dreadful disease that paralyzes its unlucky victim is spreading fast and health administrators are now vigorously working in solving the possible outbreak.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton emphasized that her seven-country tour of Africa was intended to promote unity and democracy, fight corruption, and boost US investments in African trade and agriculture.

In the newest HIV/AIDS study conducted by various researchers from Oxford University, the Population Council of Ghana and the Kenya Medical Research, they found how men who have sex with men have no safe access to relevant HIV/AIDS information.

After high food prices affected most of the world, a blood-based dish known as 'Vampire' is making a comeback in Chad, a country whose Global Hunger Index is "Alarming."