Organ trafficking: ‘They locked me in and took my kidney’
Desperate to reach Europe, migrants from Africa are travelling to Egypt to sell body parts to pay for their passage.
‘An African man like me depressed?’ Why representation matters in the movies
The continent’s largest film industry has been getting mental health all wrong with dangerous consequences. Now, that’s changing.
Inside the illegal abortion market: ‘I nearly touched hell’
Zimbabwe’s tight abortion laws aren’t curbing demand, they’re driving them underground — and it’s about to get worse.
When police crashed her wedding, she was 8. Her soon-to-be husband was 67.
Across the continent, women are helping to reimagine a sacred rite of passage in an effort to honour their cultures and spare their bodies.
This map tells you which districts have the country’s highest c-section rates
Some districts report Caesarean rates of 40%, which is much higher than the 26% national average for public hospitals.
2018: The best, the worst and the weird
You made it through the year. Kick back, relax and take a read through the 2018 that was.
‘I didn’t think it was necessary to use condoms because I was only 15.’
This province reported skyrocketing rates of teen pregnancy but behind the figures lies a story about sex, knowledge and data.
How many of these iconic protest posters can you recognise?
Here's the story of the Treatment Action Campaign or how a handful of people created a global movement that changed the world.
Plant, pick, pack: Finding Mpumalanga’s missing fruit pickers
In this province, the agricultural and mining sectors draw thousands of workers each year – and then they disappear. Here’s why we need to find them.
Investigation reveals shocking conditions at NGOs caring for disabled people
Report unearths neglect in Kenyan institutions, yet discrimination means children may be at risk of being killed if they remain in communities
Selling sex
From Amsterdam’s glittering canals to Durban’s dark streets, take a look at how the world legislates sex — and why it matters.
72 hours to care: The precarious road to psychiatric help
For many people with severe mental illnesses, these special wards can be a lifeline and the first step to care — if they can get there.
‘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.
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?
‘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.