Niger became the first African country to eliminate the parasitic infection onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness, and the fifth worldwide, according to World Health Organisation (WHO).

The mother is said to have refused to breastfeed and even clothe the child claiming she was cursed due to her deformities. The child needs surgery.

Sure, February has Groundhog Day (which I'm officially protesting - six more weeks of winter? No thanks) and Valentine's Day, ...

The so-called land question has been a decades-long dilemma for South Africa. Apartheid, dismantled in the 1990s, left a deep-seeded legacy of land inequality after centuries of policies pushed ...

On the outskirts of Cairo, a cutting-edge space lab was supposed to be the first in Africa to produce homegrown satellites. Step inside the plant, though, and the made-in-Africa image begins to fade.

Leaders of Eastern and Southern African regional blocs met for an unprecedented joint summit on Saturday to find a solution to a conflict in eastern Congo, where Rwandan-backed rebels’ rapid ...

Millions of years from now, northern Africa could be home to a new ocean, as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, according to scientists. Experts have long known that ...

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday aimed at freezing assistance to South Africa over a controversial law that allows the government to seize farmland from ethnic minorities ...

Travelling via Cape Verde airport (African coast) was a temporary measure which served its purpose whilst the work at AIB which started back in 2017 was done. RAF thanks the people of the Falkland ...

The ships are now approximately 1,000 nautical miles south-east of South Africa. The previous record of 21 days was set in 2003 by the Australian patrol vessel, Southern Supporter, when it chased ...

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has reaffirmed its commitment to transforming Africa’s agricultural sector with a massive $3 billion investment in Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones (SAPZ) ...