One way you can celebrate Black History Month is to shop at or visit local Black-owned businesses. So we've compiled a list ...

A surge in the flow of aid into the Gaza Strip since the truce between Israel and Hamas took effect on Jan. 19 is likely to ...

One of the greatest paradoxes of modern times is that Northern Nigeria is known for its sprawling fields of cattle; while at the same time, it is acknowledged as the ground zero for malnourished ...

Forecasts suggest that by 2100, a majority of the world’s babies will be African, leading to predictions of an African ...

Elkana was the best student in his school and is asking well-wishers to help him attain his dream of becoming a doctor.

The Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 is battling Congolese government forces in Congo's key city of Goma, causing the ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa — The death toll in a months-long ... Mathe said at least 13 children had also come out of the mine before the official rescue operation. Police announced Wednesday ...

The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has ... said at least 13 children had also come out ...

This was around the time of Live Aid, and the dinner ladies’ favourite rhetoric when we didn’t finish food, was, “You don’t know how lucky you are, children are starving in Africa”.

At least 78 dead bodies have been pulled from an illegal gold mine in South Africa where police cut off food and water supplies for months, in what trade unions called a “horrific” crackdown ...

Cape Town: South African authorities have come under intense ... have died and 500 others are still trapped, with many ill and starving. How long have they been underground? It’s not clear ...

At least 78 dead bodies have been removed from an abandoned South African gold mine in the ... in the mine and many have fallen ill or are starving. Police have voiced fears that hundreds more ...