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Meandering rivers and lush forests offered rich pickings for generations of farming and fishing communities. Then came the oil companies.

Where ambulances fear to tread: Life in Africa's largest informal settlement is rife with problems. Getting emergency care shouldn't be one...

In the 1920s, a Northern Cape farmer dug up some of the remains of previous workers — some of whom had...

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

When this queer woman's activism put her at the centre of a village-ordered hit, a sex worker saved her life. Go...

From the Ganges River to Ghana, drones are delivering vaccines, HIV tests and blood transfusions around the world and cutting waiting times...

When hospitals are few and far between, these shelters become homes away from home for expecting mothers. Find out how countries...

With terminations outlawed in Kenya, women and girls in its largest slum have to rely on expensive and unreliable under-the-counter pills,...

Sperm washing, assisted insemination & long hospital waits — if you were lucky. This is what falling pregnant when you were...

Ghana plans to release the modified seeds this year or next. Will they benefit the small farmers they were designed for?

By making a devastating mistake, this clinic proved it was on the right track.

A deadly conflict simmers between the autochthon people forced out of Kahuzi-Biéga national park, and the rangers protecting the land.

Death comes for us all and when it does, we hope it’s a good one. We hope it has meaning, we...

From how to spice up your sex life to the more mundane, “does this look weird to you”, there are some questions you just don’t want to ask your friends and family. Relax. Now, there’s an app for that.

When kids at risk of suicide can talk to trained friends & family, they're seven times less likely to die, says one...

Why the woes facing South Africa’s Thuthuzela Care Centres may not be as unique as we thought.