Africa, World

Five cases of typhoid fever have been confirmed in Kampungu, western Kasai Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where...

A success story, at last: Botswana has lowered the rate of mother-to-child transmission of HIV to less than four percent, coming close to developed...

The Gambia Football Association will join the rest of the world to observe World FIFA Fair Play Day on Friday, September 21. A statement from The...

The 2007 Junior Nawettan in Jambur has finally reached its final stage after several weeks of intensive competition. In the first semi final...

Kansala Youth Trust, a district-based association established in 2005, over the weekend held a two-day forum to review their programme for 2007. ...

Charles Lawson, a Nigerian national, was on Monday, arraigned before Magistrate Buba Jawo of the Bundung Magistrates’ Court, for being in possession...

At least 50 villages in Benin have been destroyed by floods, an aid group there says. "Hundreds of homes, crops, granaries, livestock and...

Flooding in eastern Chad has “seriously hampered” aid agencies’ assistance to tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees and displaced Chadians,...

Thousands of Congolese civilians who were displaced in August by fighting in Sake town, North Kivu Province, are still living in camps out of fear...

With formal education systems crumbling in much of sub-Saharan Africa, educationalists are looking more to informal systems of education taught in...