Analysis - Much of what scientists know about how genetic differences affect health comes from studying populations outside Africa. This matters because genetic information is increasingly being used ...

Analysis - Across Africa, wheat, maize and rice are the most consumed cereal crops. When they fail because of drought, floods or other climate disasters, this can be devastating for farmers, ...

At least 139 migrants have died after their boat capsized off Djibouti, with a further 84 people still missing, the UN migration agency (IOM) said on Sunday.

At least 109 migrants died, including 15 children, and some 116 went missing when a boat sank off the shores of Djibouti on the night of 8-9 October, a UN agency said Sunday. More than 80 people ...

France's national health agency has recorded more than 161 cases of West Nile virus and five deaths since its annual seasonal surveillance began on 1 May. Transmitted to humans by mosquitos, which ...

Analysis - Evaluating national leaders is a difficult task. Citizens often judge presidents and prime ministers by simple measures like economic growth during their term, or personal character.

Kenya's first imported case of Ebola - in which the patient travelled from Democratic Republic of Congo via Uganda - has exposed failings in border screening processes. Now Kenyan health officials are ...

Adam Ouattara and Makongo Traoré have four children and a home on the edge of Torla village in Côte d'Ivoire. He herds cattle. She grows vegetables on a small plot nearby. For years, the dry season ...

Each morning on her way to Kariakoo, Clementina Nyangwine looks out of her commuter bus as it crawls through Jangwani and watches giant foundation piles rising above the muddy Msimbazi valley.

Analysis - Angola's finance minister, Vera Daves de Sousa, has chosen to put her political authority behind officials at the General Tax Administration (AGT) implicated in Maka Angola's investigation ...

Analysis - Zambia's 13 August general election was already fraught before anyone tried to challenge its result, according to an account human rights lawyer Linda Kasonde has since published on her ...

Guest Column - Over the past two weeks, Washington has suffered a series of humiliating diplomatic defeats in its effort to force Sudanese authorities into a ceasefire deal they were not prepared to ...