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Profiles are one of the best kept secrets around regarding Mozilla Firefox (my browser of choice). In the role of web site designer, I find it...

Webster Katope*, 43, a pastor from Lusaka who is married with three children, found out he had tuberculosis (TB) in 2007. He talked to IRIN/PlusNews...

Hygiene in most hospitals in Cote d’Ivoire is so low that the ministry of health has launched a nationwide clean-up campaign. “We hope to...

The Monam group of rape survivors in the northern town of Bossangoa in the Central African Republic (CAR) does what it can to keep going, but morale...

Father-of-five Joseph Lotaba woke up on 6 March morning to fire and panic as a neighbouring village in Rift Valley's Laikipia West district went up...

Mauritania is often held up as a beacon when it comes to the proportion of women elected to political office - a 20 percent minimum quota was...

A crackdown by police against Senegalese citizens who gathered in the capital Dakar on 30 March to protest the high cost of living was “brutal”, say...

Two human rights activists have been released from prison in Ethiopia having been detained since November 2005. Daniel Bekele and Netsanet Demissie...

The President of the Gambia Press Union has said that there is only one GPU which works in the interest of its members, in particular, and Gambia,...

On the second anniversary of a police raid on the privately-owned weekly The Independent, Reporters Without Borders calls on the government to lift...