Africa, World

Desperate entrepreneurs are scouring rubbish dumps, abattoirs and poisoned waterways for scraps of food to eat or sell to other equally hungry...

Juju Gassama, 43, is a rice-farmer in western Gambia’s Jambur village, a small farming community 30km east of the capital Banjul. She is a member of...

A long queue of trucks loaded with timber, freshly sawed from Ghana's fast-depleting forests, lines up at Accra’s Tema Harbour to offload to ships...

A new study estimates that more than 330,000 HIV-positive South Africans lost their lives between 2000 and 2005 as a direct result of government...

Military-escorted aid convoys also risk blurring the line between humanitarian assistance and political-military action. MSF stresses the need to...

Illegal housing precariously built on the volcanic archipelago of Cape Verde threatens to increase erosion, land disputes, disease, flooding, and...

An attempt by regional mediators to revive the peace process between the government and the rebel Forces nationales de libération (FNL) hit a snag on...

Hawa* is determined her young daughter will not undergo female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), which is widespread in Somalia's self-declared...

Heavy dependence on imported rice is crippling Gambian consumers, leading the government to call for New Rice for Africa, or Nerica, production to...

Armed groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have attacked a school in a bid to recruit child soldiers. Save the Children knows of two...