Africa, World

Tuberculosis infection rates in Uganda have increased due to the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the country, but the scarcity of health centres and...

Services at the only hospital in Somalia's coastal city of Kismayo, 500km south of the capital Mogadishu, stopped on 29 January, a day after four...

The opposition party of Zimbabwe, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has announced that it wishes for constitutional reform to take place...

A mob set fire to a church in western Kenya Tuesday, killing at least 30 people inside who were seeking refuge from widespread post-election...

Following the notice given to residents of Half Die in Banjul by Gambia Ports Authority (GPA) to vacate the area latest by 29th February 2008,...

Linda Mbiko*, a 36-year-old widow, crossed the border from Zimbabwe into South Africa, hidden in the back of a truck. She was fleeing poverty and a...

A police station has been hit by a bomb in Nacria, which is at the north of Algeria and is about 50 km east of the Algerian capital Algiers. ...

Following the publication by the Daily Observer  of a story about the sit-down strike at the airport improvement project site involving 200 workers,...

After a long battle with cancer, Stella Brewer Marsden, the indomitable English lady who founded and ran the Chimp Re-hab Centre at the River Gambia...

The Gambia is one of few countries that have no arrears in their yearly contributions with the African Union. This has transpired after a list of...