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West Africas coastal areas host about one third of the regions population and generate 56% of its GDP.

Despite Buhari's 2015 claim that Boko Haram was "technically defeated", jihadists continue gaining ground across Lake Chad and West Africa, where the humanitarian fallout is, if anything, worsening.

Artists compose music to open up understandings of health care and specific conditions. Some academics open use everything from yoga to photography to observation and drawing to help educate health sciences students.

The lengthy nature of some of Africas wars is one of the main hindrances to ending the refugee cycle. The Somalia war is over 27 years and the DRC been in conflict since the 1990s.

The majority of fires on Mount Kenya are caused by peoplewhen they clear land with fire for domestic animal grazing, to gather honey, for cannabis cultivation and charcoal production.

Financial impact of IDPs in CAR is about $230 million, or 11% of the central African country's GDP per year.

There are more than 70 armed groups in South Sudan and one that didnt sign last year's accord. Five years of civil war have left 1.9 million internally displaced and 2.4 million living as refugees in neighbouring countries.

EU policies, including the decision to enable the Libyan Coast Guard to intercept and return migrants, are contributing to a cycle of extreme abuse.

The conflict was the longest of Uganda's post independence struggles. In addition to those killed, 2 million people were displaced, and 60,000 to 100,000 abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army rebels.

The conditions present in Gabon were far less conducive to a coup than the vast majority of previous attempts. So why would the plotters take such a risky action?

The government has previously claimed that Boko Haram was "technically defeated". In reality the insurgency has fragmented but continues.

Kenyas Chinese financed diesel train railway cost $3.2 billion for 472 kilometres of track. The more expensive electric train line from Addis Ababa to Djibouti $3.4 billion - for 756 kilometres.

Maternal mortality remains high around the world, with more than 303,000 women dying in pregnancy, childbirth or shortly afterwards. More than half of these deaths are in sub-Saharan Africa.

The roots of Cameroons conflict can be traced back to education. The separatists fighting for independence from French-majority say the current school system symbolises the marginalisation of the English language and culture.

As the war enters its sixth year only the most optimistic of observers is voicing much hope that the revitalised peace agreement.

More than 150 women and girls were raped, beaten, and brutalised over a 10-day period at the end of November.

The audit also found stockpiled goods, more lying idle than had been distributed in the previous 12 months, including 288,000 blankets and 50,000 wheelbarrows.

An estimated 219 million malaria cases were reported globally in 2017.

Eight countries including several in crisis such as Chad, Sudan, and South Sudan are in debt distress and a further 18 are at high risk.