Oliverio Quira often checks on his cattle near the Purace volcano in southwestern Colombia. Despite a recent alert about a ...

Opinion - Rwanda has grown accustomed to living with dangers the world refuses to hear, or believe, and it still remains unknown how narrowly the nation escaped catastrophe on November 25, 2021, and ...

When the Black Death swept through Europe beginning in 1347, the plague wiped out more than half of the continent’s population, upending societies and interrupting wars. New research suggests that a ...

The Black Death — one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, estimated to have killed up to half of Europe’s population — might have been set in motion by a volcanic eruption, a new study ...

The infamous Black Death—a pandemic that killed as many as one third to one half of Europeans within just a few years—may have been aided in its devastation by an unknown volcanic eruption. Martin ...

Arriving in February 2021 to lead one of the world's most exposed missions, Bintou Keita took the reins of MONUSCO in a context of endless offensives, repeated armed violence, apparent powerlessness, ...

The UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General in the DRC was expected to leave her position in February 2026.

Volcanic activity in northern Ethiopia's long-dormant Hayli Gubbi volcano subsided Tuesday, days after an eruption that left a trail of destruction in nearby villages and caused flight cancellations ...

The Hayli Gubbi volcano in the rural northeast of Ethiopia erupted November 23. Afar Communication Bureau via Facebook A volcano in northern Ethiopia erupted Sunday, marking its first known eruption ...