Africa, World

One Babadinding Fofana, a native of Wassu, was over the weekend attacked by two hippopotami while on his way to the rice fields. Narrating his...

With just one in 25 Liberians having access to a toilet, most use the nearest bush or beach, unwittingly committing what the UN Children’s Fund...

Researchers have sold over 1,000 solar stoves to rural families in Senegal in a bid to prove that the ovens can improve child and maternal health and...

Soaring insecurity in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has raised fears of a new wave of sexual violence in a region termed “the worst place in...

Heavy rains have displaced thousands and damaged crops in eastern and northern Uganda, but officials are optimistic an emergency will be avoided as...

At least 100 people have died in the past four weeks after an outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea (AWD) in and around the town of Abudwaaq, in...

The state of preparedness for a natural disaster in Malawi's flood-prone areas as well as other locales is coming under intense scrutiny ahead of the...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for nearly doubling the number of international troops deployed to eastern Chad. UN peacekeepers,...

Desmond Doshane, 19, is one of 1.6 million newly registered South African voters. He will be casting a ballot for the first time in elections due in...

Key sectors of the economy are already experiencing the effects of the global recession gripping America and Europe.