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An additional $10 billion will be required to provide universal access to powerful pharmaceuticals, prevention efforts and early diagnosis methods to stem the transmission of HIV from mothers to their newborns.
Two activists from Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe were arrested in May after police found “indecent material” and a letter from former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown “insulting” to President Robert Mugabe.
The Protection of Information bill would allow government officials to classify information as secretive, in order to ensure national security and to prevent espionage. Journalists or citizens caught disseminating classified information could face up to 25 years in prison.
Heralded by scientists as a near-miracle food, a protein-rich algae has potential to abolish malnutrition.
Nestled in Ethiopia’s rural Debub Gondar Zone exists Awra Amba, a small utopian community in which men cook supper and religious observance is taboo.
Conservationist groups say the proposed highway will decimate migrating wildebeest herds.
Former NBA star Manute Bol, the 7-foot-7 Sudanese tribesman who died at 47 on June 19, succumbed to kidney failure and a baffling, deadly skin disease called Stevens-Johnson syndrome.
In an effort to familiarize young voters with Kenya’s draft constitution, a website has translated the document into the slang language Sheng.
Manute Bol is dead, and the world has lost one of the most iconoclastic freedom fighters in modern times.
Thousands of spills across decades have ravaged the Niger Delta region.