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The ruthless quest for gold in eastern Cameroon has left the landscape peppered with deadly open pits.

Reusable sanitary towels are cheaper than regular pads and tampons but the state is failing to distribute these to schoolgirls from poor families.

It's World Yoga Day. Mindfulness has seen a resurgence in popularity and is slowly making its way behind the walls of prisons in South Africa.

Being isolated for days on end was too much for this student, locked up alone in her dormitory room in Wuhan, China. Her friends haven’t seen her since the day she lost it, and that was weeks ago.

The notion of violence as a national health priority has yet to take hold, even among health professionals.

A psychiatric facility in Freetown has stepped away from its colonial past and removed these ‘shackles’ from their patients.

The Finns’ cardboard box prompts an African graduate to develop a life-saving device for babies.

Lawyers argue that while farming families toil over backbreaking work in desperate poverty, British American Tobacco is reaping the rewards.

Eighty two of the Chibok school girls, kidnapped by Boko Haram in Nigeria three years ago, have been released. But what now?

Not up to the daily dilemma of what to pack your little ones for lunch? Beef up your children’s lunch boxes with these quick tips.

Undaunted by apartheid and Aids, she has made all the difference to those otherwise abandoned.

Instead of the care she sought, a vulnerable patient found further distress in a PE hospital.

Mia Malan describes the arduous trek an Eastern Cape woman had to undertake to get medical attention for her sick grandson.

Africa Check digs into the data to reveal the surprising truth behind the widely cited statistic

Abandoned as children, women in Harare are now teaching one another to fight for their futures.

A cruel, unrelenting cycle of poverty, drinking and fetal alcohol syndrome robs families of all hope.