Germany acknowledges colonial genocide in Namibia and promises development projects
BERLIN — Germany's government acknowledged on Friday that it committed genocide during its colonial occupation of what is now Namibia and promised more than $1...
New Ebola case in Congo likely linked to virus that remained active in survivor’s semen
A woman who died from Ebola in Congo last week was "almost certainly" infected by her husband, who survived an earlier outbreak, according to the...
A child sex abuser evaded justice in Kenya. Then an ‘ordinary woman’ took matters into her own hands. VIEW
A woman with dual U.S. and Kenyan citizenship heard Kenyan girls saying they had been sexually abused in an orphanage — and that an American...
Coronavirus variant sweeps South Africa, exhibiting ‘terrifying’ dominance
The variant identified in South Africa is not yet proved to be more lethal than others, including similarly highly transmissible variants recently detected in Britain...
The coronavirus is ravaging the world. But life looks almost normal in much of Africa.
The continent appears to have bucked doomsday predictions of global health experts. Data is scant, as are peer-reviewed studies. And public health experts caution that...