Analysis - South Africa's political and economic landscape shifted significantly after the 2024 national elections. The ruling ANC's dramatic loss of support resulted in a government of national unity ...

Analysis - K. Sello Duiker was regarded as a "rock star" of South African literature. He was one of a group of budding black South African novelists of the late 1990s and early 2000s who emerged with ...

Analysis - Air pollution has an alarming effect on global health. In 2019, it was responsible for 4.2 million global deaths. Inhaling air pollution harms health in many different ways beyond simply ...

Blog - Access to family planning services has become a struggle for many couples in Edo State. For the Isibors, the consequences of this shortage were devastating. After having three children, the ...

Kenya has deployed 217 more police officers to Haiti to provide backup to an understaffed security mission in the Caribbean country where spiralling gang violence has displaced more than a million ...

A total of 86 people have died after a petrol tanker truck overturned and exploded in Niger state. Most of the victims were impoverished local residents who had rushed to scoop up the spilled petrol, ...

Demographers say the first members of Generation Beta are being born this month, following on the heels of Millennials, Gen Z and Gen Alpha. VOA spoke with African futurists on what they think will ...

Nigeria has been admitted as a partner country to the Brics bloc of developing economies, adding one of Africa's largest economies to the growing alliance of emerging market countries. Brazil, the ...

Thousands of people gathered in northern Liberia on Saturday for the funeral of warlord-turned-politician Prince Johnson - a notorious face of the country's brutal civil wars, and who died without ...

Ethiopia has been listed among the worst jailers of journalists in Africa, with six journalists detained--five of whom are ...

Schools have been urged to implement infection prevention control protocols for classrooms, bathrooms, common areas even as ...

As the cage reached a depth of 1,280 meters, Charles and Mkwayi were confronted with scenes that may haunt them forever.