Community health workers — also known as ooNomakhaya in isiXhosa — fill a major gap in healthcare in hard-to-reach places.

Giraffes are among the world's most recognizable animals. With their elongated necks and long legs, their gracious movements ...

The group's capture of most of Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, is a dramatic escalation in a region that has seen ...

A jet carrying 60 passengers and four crew members collided Wednesday with an Army helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, prompting a large search-and-rescue ...

The most extensive study of the gut microbiome in Africa has discovered new microbial species and never-before-reported metagenomes from several African sites. The paper, titled "Expanding the human ...

Antisemitism has reached “deeply alarming” levels around the world by doubling in the past decade, according to ADL.

She plays 13-year-old Nawi, the eponymous heroine of the coming-of-age film set in Turkana county, a rural area which borders Uganda and where the UN says one in four girls are married before they are ...

Residents of the besieged city of Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, say they are gripped by fear as ...

Congolese security forces on Tuesday tried to slow the advance of Rwanda-backed M23 rebels who say they have captured Goma after entering eastern Congo’s largest city, as U.N. officials reported ...

AND WE KNOW RUNNING JUST ONE MARATHON IS A BIG TEST OF ENDURANCE AND DETERMINATION. AND NOW IMAGINE RUNNING SEVEN MARATHONS ...

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

A rebel alliance claimed the capture of the biggest city in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s mineral-rich eastern region ...