South Africa's Department of Home Affairs said on Friday it had withdrawn a directive allowing the intake of asylum applications, a day after anti-migrant protests turned violent in Johannesburg and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the Kingdom of Benin, one of the oldest monarchies in West Africa, a traditional ruler known as an oba would commission a brass ...

Pixie frog may look trapped, but the strange covering is actually part of an impressive survival strategy. During long dry periods, these African frogs can enter a dormant state called estivation.

Over the past decade, countries in the African region experienced slow progress in mobilizing resources for health while facing continued challenges. In their revised estimates published in 2017, ...

International agencies and foreign donors have long driven campaigns to defeat diseases like Ebola. Dr. Jean Kaseya, the head of the Africa C.D.C., wants to change that. Dr. Jean Kaseya, the director ...

This report is one of the first major products of the newly established Precision Public Health Metrics unit of the UCN cluster of the WHO Regional Office for Africa. The report presents national ...

South Africa’s pace-bowling spearhead Kagiso Rabada is facing a race against time to recover for the home Test series against Australia. After being ruled out of the ODI series, an official word on ...

Siya Kolisi had described the challenge of playing four Tests against New Zealand as like playing four World Cup finals in as many weeks. Well, if the Springboks captain is right, then his victory in ...

Run by a social enterprise, the six shops operate from shipping containers across Johannesburg’s Alexandra township and sell food and household goods by weight in small, affordable amounts Every ...

The fourth Cheetah Girls is on the way, and it’s set to introduce the next generation of Cheetalicious girls! The Cheetah Girls: Next Gen was announced back in July, with production kicking off that ...

When Lonnie G. Bunch III walks through the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., his love of history is on full display. "I just love this museum so much," he said. One of ...