"As a representative of the world coming to join you today and being welcomed by you today, I feel ashamed that we have not been able to protect you, and I feel ashamed of my fellow men for what they ...

Responding to the Ivorian authorities' decision to suspend eviction operations in the Autonomous District of Abidjan, Samira Daoud, Amnesty International's Regional Director for West and Central ...

The legal fraternity has hailed Kenya University Biotechnology Consortium's (KUBICO) efforts to equip them with biotechnology expertise, a timely move following the lifting of Kenya's decade-long ...

Analysis - South Africa's townships - urban areas created for black people under apartheid - have long experienced problems with massive pest infestations and the selling of pesticides on the streets ...

As 12 gorgeous finalists compete for the coveted title of Miss World Zimbabwe, beauty, brains, and benevolence will come together in a breathtaking display of grace and camaraderie.

Analysis - The United States army has completed its withdrawal from Niger after 11 years of military cooperation with the west African country.

Authorities across 19 African countries have arrested 1,006 suspects and dismantled 134,089 malicious infrastructures and networks thanks to a joint operation by INTERPOL and AFRIPOL against ...

As the world faces escalating challenges, from climate change to biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation, there is now a rapidly expanding understanding that these crises are deeply interconnected ...

Interview - Back in 2002, 18 year-old Yobu Maligwa was walking down the street in the capital city of Lilongwe in Malawi, the small land-locked country bordering Zambia, Tanzania and Mozambique.

Hundreds of people, including women's rights activists, Nigerian lawmakers, and other participants, chanted as they walked from the National Assembly through the streets of Abuja on Monday.

Ahead of World AIDS Day on 1 December, a new report by the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) highlights the critical role of human rights in ending the AIDS pandemic as a public health threat by ...

A report by the international NGO Equality Now says the definition of rape in 25 African countries has allowed many perpetrators to go unpunished. Such narrow definitions, it says, often allow charges ...