Women journalists' rights advocacy group Gender and Media Connect (GMC) has called on authorities to release jailed news ...

Privately owned weekly newspaper Zimbabwe Independent editor Faith Zaba has been remanded in custody to this Thursday for her ...

The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) have issued a 21-day ultimatum to the federal government, threatening nationwide ...

An African Union helicopter has crashed at Mogadishu's Aden Abdulle International Airport, killing three people. The aircraft ...

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The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and several media freedom organisations have called on Zimbabwean authorities to ...

The Minister of Finance and Development Planning, Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan, has reaffirmed Liberia's steadfast commitment to placing children at the heart of national development through the upcoming ...

Guest Column - On World Malaria Day 2014, in Dakar, Senegal, parents, health workers, students, government officials, athletes, teachers, and community and national leaders stood up and said, “Zero ...

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and malaria (Global Fund) has notified Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi that it will reduce funding to South Africa by R1.4-billion.

Silas Ani was last seen unconscious during a "drug raid" by police and Sizok'thola presenter Xolani Khumalo in April ...

The head of the Office of the Ombudsman, Cllr. Findley Karnga, has admitted that the implementation of Liberia's Code of Conduct law remains largely ineffective due to longstanding logistical and ...

Malawi has taken a historic step in the fight against cancer. On Monday morning, President Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera officially commissioned the country's first-ever National Cancer Centre, a ...