Africa

By reducing staff and access to treatment, the suspension of USAID and other funding threatens the country’s progress in HIV care

Researchers say the remains of ‘Paranthropus boisei’ reveal that this ancient relative was capable of powerfully manipulating objects and food, climbing trees, and perhaps making tools

The writer and filmmaker from Zimbabwe decries the destruction caused by colonialism in her country, and looks to rebuild an identity that has been shattered

From an evolutionary anthropological perspective, human beings have adapted to be able to run and work out without shoes, and biomechanics show the practice can be beneficial if adopted gradually

A lethal mix of cannabis and synthetic opioids up to 25 times more potent than fentanyl is causing dozens of deaths and has become a public health emergency in countries like Liberia and Sierra Leone

Born in the working-class neighborhoods of Abidjan and developed by children and teenagers, this dance has become a cultural phenomenon that blends art and social media, while creating connections between different generations

The Cuban singer, who emigrated from the island six years ago and is being hailed as the new Celia Cruz, reaffirms the African roots of her music and rejects being pigeonholed into a single genre

New research supports the drunken monkey hypothesis, which links the human attraction to alcoholic beverages to the habits of our primate ancestors

The Trump administration is concealing the identity and fate of those deported. Advocates claim the deportations are illegal because no attempt was made to return them to their countries of origin

The heads of state of Cameroon and Uganda, who have been in power for 43 and 39 years respectively, have announced their candidacies for reelection

The government is raising taxes and cutting public spending to address a $6 billion shortfall left by the previous administration

Experts and industry promoters warn that the gains from this growing sector are not fully reaching local workers and suppliers, and stress the need to invest in education and the competitiveness of community projects

Numerous NGOs are trying to prevent the Trump administration from incinerating a shipment of pills, intrauterine devices, and hormonal implants, stored on European soil, that would help 1.4 million women and girls

The African Union is pushing to end Mercator’s distortions and replace it with projections that reflect the continent’s real proportions

No human is born knowing how to parent, but in some way we are all equipped to learn how

The victim, a 13-year-old boy, was hospitalized in Marrakech after being drugged and sexually assaulted by more than a dozen men

The fossils, attributed to an unknown australopithecus that lived in present-day Ethiopia 2.6 million years ago, have met with skepticism from other experts

Rwanda is the latest nation to accept citizens of other nationalities amid allegations of repression and torture at Trump’s chosen destinations

The writer has won the prestigious award in the Biography category with ‘Every Living Thing,’ the story of a confrontation between two great scientists that defined modern biology

The temporary suspension of PEPFAR has disrupted preventive treatments, infant testing, and the work of community health teams serving vulnerable populations in the Global South, according to UNAIDS

The executive director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme is calling for better urban planning to help cities prepare for population growth and to tackle the global housing crisis

Tony Sánchez-Ariño, now 95, defends legal hunting in Africa in his books and recounts how he once shot a record 20 animals in just 75 minutes

Despite a projected drop in aid, Mathias Cormann remains optimistic, proposing ways to boost public and private financing at the UN summit in Seville

The environments where the two species lived shaped both their biology and how we perceive them

The director of the Africa CDC believes the abrupt cutoff of Western aid will cause great suffering to Africans. At the same time, he sees it as an opportunity to emancipate the continent from foreign support