The Biden administration announced on Wednesday that it was sending 5 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine to South Africa and 4 million doses...

Millennium Challenge Corporation’s (MCC) Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Alexia Latortue, announced on Tuesday at the U.S.-Africa Business Summit that the agency will sign more than $1 billion of new economic growth programs in Africa by the end of 2022, underscoring the agency’s work to support the tremendous infrastructure needs of countries through grant financing and policy reforms.

The economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has worsened the plight of families living in poverty in Lagos State, Nigeria and left many people struggling to afford food and meet other basic needs, Human Rights Watch and Justice & Empowerment Initiatives (JEI) said in a report released on Wednesday. The number of Nigerians experiencing hunger doubled during the pandemic.

The executive board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday approved a new disbursement of $44.2 million to Sierra Leone to support "the government’s policy and reform efforts aimed at reinforcing the country’s recovery from the pandemic, preserving macroeconomic stability, and sustaining inclusive long-term growth."

The Super Tucano is a dual-pilot turboprop aircraft built as a workhorse combat air platform, equipped for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) and for precision air-to-ground strike missions. The next six aircraft are scheduled for delivery later this year.

prison on June 8, 2021, for “insulting the state’s institutions and symbols” and “negatively speaking about the kingdom’s policies” among other vague charges, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday.

Last month, I had the chance to visit an agricultural training facility deep in the Western Highlands of Guatemala, a region with the highest rates of malnutrition in a country where nearly half of all children are malnourished. Here in this cutting-edge facility, farmers were learning the latest techniques to boost their productivity, save water, grow more nutritious crops, and adapt to climate shocks that threaten their harvests. The U.S. made a minor investment to build this facility—just $500,000—but because we were willing to move first, we were then able to leverage another $1 million dollars from the private sector.