A last minute agreement between Silulumanzi and the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has averted a strike scheduled for3.

Analysis - African Perspectives on Agroecology is a new book with 33 contributions from academics, non-governmental organisations, farmer organisations and policy makers. It is free to download, and ...

Analysis - Zimbabwean art historian Barnabas Ticha Muvhuti travelled by road to five southern African countries - Botswana, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Namibia, Mozambique and Zambia - in ...

I didn’t expect to find children, let alone toddlers, in a state-run institution for adults in Kano, northern Nigeria. One of the them was Aisha, a girl between 3 and 4 years old, who lived there with ...

Analysis - More than nine million Ethiopian children are currently out of school. They are caught in the crossfire of armed conflicts, natural disasters, tribal tensions and economic hardships.

The International Day of Education, January 24, reminds us of the power of education to transform children's lives, and to build vibrant, sustainable societies.

But today, Fenoaivo and other vulnerable communities across southern Africa and beyond have found an antidote: a multipronged rural development initiative spearheaded by the World Food Programme (WFP) ...

Tanzania's government has not adopted adequate legal and policy measures needed to protect pregnant girls and adolescent mothers' right to education and reverse decades of systemic exclusion in ...

An armed attack on Kenyan communist leader Booker Ngesa Omole has sparked global outrage, with revolutionary groups expressing solidarity.

The directive follows reports that politicians and other influential individuals fraudulently obtained titles on land originally intended for evicted community members.

Staff at Dora Nginza Hospital in Gqeberha have brought most activity and procedures at the facility to a standstill this week. Some nurses are on a go-slow strike while many others have been staging ...

African press agencies must play a key role in promoting African initiatives in the field of health, by publicizing discoveries and work of the continent's researchers, said on Wednesday in Salé, ...