Announcements to effect that schools had to delay opening due to serious flooding was the highlight of the link between ...

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 ...

What matters isn’t so much a Trump rant as that children are less likely to die now than at any other time in the history of ...

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 ...

WEST AFRICA has long been a source of booze. In Yoruba mythology Obatala, a deity sent to create humans, stumbled on palm wine and fell into a drunken slumber before completing the task.

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 ...