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Not a school in sight: Autistic children travel 500 km to learn
A mother's love led her to South Africa to find a school for her son with autism.
Saved: How drug users gained the power to reverse overdoses
Find out how drug users banded together to use a simple injection to save thousands of lives.
‘I was kicked out of our house by his parents’, say widows
If a man dies in the Central African Republic, his wife is at risk of being evicted from their home by his relatives.
This is what life is like in the world’s last country to ban slavery
Photojournalist, Seif Kousmate, photographed and interviewed current and former slaves in Mauritania and got imprisoned by police in the process.
After Ebola: What happens when the virus fades and the NGOs — and money...
Ebola wiped out nearly 10% of Liberia’s doctors and nurses. Take a look at life for those it left behind.
Old birth rites, new ways
When bringing a new life into the world risks taking another, even old traditions have to adopt new ways.
‘We are forced to move on from declaring babies dead as if nothing happens’
Saving lives — and losing them — may be all in a day's work for health workers, but if you think it doesn't take its toll, listen to these doctors.
‘Cancer treatment in the North West is impossible’
Activists say that at least one patient has been trying to get treatment since 2013.
Speak more than one language? This is what it does to your brain.
Speaking more than one language could lead to better tests scores and even being a more empathetic person.
Who killed Ntombizodwa Matthews? Politics, protest & corruption in the North West
A month after she was wheeled out of a North West hospital in a barrow, Ntombizodwa Matthews met her end. Her family blames politics for her death.
Football’s dashed hopes: The teenagers sold a Premier League lie
They thought they were signing up for a dream but it turned out to be a trafficking nightmare.
The future of water: From your toilet to your tap and back again
The reality is many of us look at water like we do a takeaway container.
Obesity: Is eating slap tjips as bad as smoking?
For millennials, it ain't looking good, but are hard-hitting campaigns just fat-shaming and counterproductive?
Could this be the second major city on the verge of a ‘day zero’?
Taps in capital city of Maputo being turned off every other day as climate change exacerbates southern African drought.
‘No sex, no coffee, no ARVs’: Former president’s quackery could land him in court
Former Gambian president Yahya Jammeh will be the first African head of state to be tried for violating the rights of HIV-positive people.
Local is lekker: How this Kenyan hospital began to make its own supply of...
Every year, hundreds of thousands of children die gasping for air. This could help to change that.