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Researchers for a leading international medical journal say South Africa’s health system is failing women and children in particular, but that new leadership could solve many of the problems.
At a meeting in Johannesburg, South African Health...
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Kenya is facing a severe shortage of food and water with more than 10 million people requiring urgent assistance.
Kenya’s Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Wednesday told Parliament that only 20 million bags of maize, Kenya’s staple food,...
Beneath the granite shadow of South Africa’s Quadu Mountains, the prayers for the dead infant are spoken in Shona, the language of rural Zimbabwe.
It is early morning. Across the De Doorns township, an hour’s drive east of the commercial heart...
The two robbery suspects had already been viciously beaten, their swollen faces stained with rivulets of red. One of them could no longer sit up, and only the need to moan seemed to revive him into consciousness. The other, Moses Tjiwa, occasionally...
Robert Mugabe on Sunday launched a new pact aimed at tearing down trade barriers across 19 African nations with appeals for external investors and an end to domestic conflicts.
The veteran leader took over as chairman of the continent’s largest...
Hundreds of indigenous protesters were holding 38 police hostage early on Saturday in Peru’s Amazon jungle after fights between tribes and police killed up to 33 people in the worst violence of President Alan Garcia’s...
Two international oil companies operating in Nigeria said Tuesday they are apprehensive about the draft petroleum law before parliament that paves the way for reforms in the oil and gas sector.
“We need to understand the rules of the game. What...
Doctors at one of the main hospitals in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, say they have been swamped with patients injured in an upsurge of fighting.
Medics say some of the casualties are being admitted with horrific injuries.
At Medina Hospital, tents...
Much is made of early humans eking out an existence with the bare necessities. Making hammers and axes out of rock, houses out of caves. But the most romantic is the acquisition of fire.
It is a widely held and scientifically viable belief that humans originated in sub-Saharan Africa some 150 to 200 thousand years ago. However our migration away from there, to populate immediate areas and, later, the world, is not so easily...
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