Nearly half the country’s population of more than 11 million people experiencing crisis levels of hunger.

Right now, Cap-Haïtien is the only city that connects Haiti to the world as Port-au-Prince is in crisis.

As millions around the world celebrated the incoming of the New Year by giving thanks to God and attending events with family and friends, tragedy struck in Uganda.

In a country where the maternal mortality rate is one of the highest in the world, a small clinic dedicated to reproductive health care for more than 200,000 people is about to be shut down. The worried-looking mothers know too well what might happen next.

A Ugandan mother is making global headlines for holding the world record for the most children and being warned by doctors that she could suffer severe health problems if she stopped giving birth.

The case of a father killing his twin daughters after accusing them of being witches has shocked the global faith community.

BENI, Congo (AP) — When Germain Kalubenge gets a request for a ride on his motorcycle it can be a matter of life or death. The 23-year-old is a survivor of the Ebola virus and often is the only driver his community trusts to help if someone suspects they are infected.

The government in the Bahamas says the death toll from Hurricane Dorian has risen to 44. Health Minister Duane Sands confirmed the toll. Officials have warned that the number of deaths is likely to rise as security forces and other teams search devastated areas of the northern Bahamas.

One of the biggest-named Sudanese-Australian models in the world is airing out her personal grievances against an Australian publication that printed an image of a different black model next to her feature. 19-year-old Adut Akech says she feels “disrespected” after Who magazine made the error.

After a devastating cyclone in Mozambique, a cholera outbreak has been declared in the regional city of Beira, many of whose half-million residents live in slums, and in a few outlying communities where scores of thousands of people now huddle in displacement camps with few toilets and little clean water.

Many of Haiti’s youths live on the streets; hundreds of thousands are domestic workers in other families’ homes, and consigned to orphanage-like institutions ranging in quality from adequate to abominable.