Africa, World

South Africa's main opposition has accused the state intelligence services of hiring traditional healers to carry out a spiritual cleansing ceremony....

An overturned fuel tanker in the Ghanaian town of Techiman has exploded, killing at least 22 people. The explosion happened as people tried to scoop...

A British and Spanish journalist in Somalia have been kidnapped from the north-eastern Puntland region, local authorities say. Government officials...

Nigeria's food and drug agency says that 25 children aged between three months and four years have died after taking a contaminated teething syrup....

LUSAKA Tuesday, November 25, 2008 (IRIN) - Traditional healers are often the first line of care in Zambia, helping to fill the gaps in a public...

Violence against women is, in a way, tied to society’s off-beam perception of the role of women in national development. We must be careful not to...

Reports monitored from GRTS last evening have it that Dr. Malick Njie has been relieved of his post as Secretary of State for Health and Social...

One Peter Paul Hornberger, a German national, is reported to be arrested by the child welfare unit of the Gambia Police Force. According to...

The Bundung Magistrates’ Court, presided over by acting Principal Magistrate Kumba Sillah-Camara, yesterday convicted and sentenced one Dodou...