Africa’s economic growth is hinging on creating 1 billion jobs by the end of the century. Where will it find them?

A new eastern black rhino has been born in the wild in Kenya! The rhino calf brings the small subpopulation in the region to ...

Wildlife researchers are celebrating the wild birth of a critically endangered eastern black rhino as a tiny subgroup in ...

While the Constitution promises equality, social and cultural norms still deny women and girls equal opportunity; ending ...

Zohran Mamdani, the new mayor-elect of New York City, was born in Uganda to parents of Indian origin, and his family ...

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Although taxpayer money now funds the bulk of South Africa's HIV programme, getting to the point where we have the largest HIV treatment programme in the world, would not have been possible without ...

When the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) was founded on May 10, 1930, at Howard University in Washington, D.C., few could have imagined that its mission of unity, scholarship, and service would ...

The Trump administration is allowing a stockpile of nearly $10 million worth of contraceptives to expire in a Belgian warehouse — despite pleas from nonprofit organizations to allow them to deliver ...

“As a midwife, I've held a torch in one hand while I prayed on one side that a mother didn’t die in childbirth,” said Angela Nguku, founder of the White Ribbon Alliance Kenya. A midwife by vocation, ...

The KwaZulu-Natal department of health has dismissed as false and distressing social media claims that a newborn baby died after being delivered on the floor at Addington Hospital in Durban. The ...

Preterm babies are those born alive before 37 weeks of pregnancy are completed. The global figure for babies born early was 13.4 million in 2020. But statistics on preterm babies in African countries ...