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Becky Mugisha* had been ill with a hacking cough for three months before she was admitted into one of Kampala’s busiest tuberculosis (TB) wards, but...

By early evening the corridors of the Soldier Bar brothel in a busy commercial area of Accra were already filled with long queues of young girls and...

The food crisis in northeastern Uganda's Karamoja region has reached such a dire level that more than one million people are in need of emergency...

A presidential decree suspending due process and clamping down on civil liberties following a two-day rebel attack on the capital was later also used...

Mothers and children in South Africa are dying in alarming numbers. Far from being on track to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of reducing...

The political crisis in Kenya caused major population movements that may require a repeat of cartographic mapping in some areas before the 2009...

Rural women living with HIV in circumstances of poverty in South Africa face discrimination in relationships and in communities because of their...

Off the beaten track east of Uganda's capital, Kampala, a four-wheel-drive vehicle is taking a nurse, a community health worker and a cooler full of...

The Swazi police has been accused of using excessive force and the army has been deployed for domestic policing after a rare episode of political...

Ghana’s government has invoked a clause of the 1951 Refugee Convention to force the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to close operations for 26,000...