On Wednesday night the annual nation-wide count of people experiencing homelessness will take place. A network of volunteers and state employees will conduct the annual Point-in-Time Count in all 100 ...

Forecasts suggest that by 2100 a majority of the world’s babies will be African, leading to predictions of an “African ...

I didn't expect to find children, let alone toddlers, in a state-run institution for adults in Kano, northern Nigeria. One of ...

The Trump administration's freeze on U.S. foreign aid globally has included a stop-work order to a program run by aid group Action Against Hunger helping severely malnourished children in refugee ...

One doctor is showing nurses, teachers and parents how to spot eye problems, many of which can be easily treated. Surgery, ...

He explained that smoke inhalation from firewood and charcoal kills 300,000 children and 300,000 women each year Around ...

The President of the African Development Bank, Akinwunmi Adesina, has revealed that approximately 600,000 women and children die every year in Africa due to the lack of access to clean cooking sources ...

In mid-January 2024, over 1,000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in ...

A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about a week after resurfacing ...

As the silent crisis of undernutrition in children looms, addressing nutrition could hold the key to safeguarding future ...

Trapped up to 2.5 kilometres underground, the miners faced horrific conditions, with some resorting to cannibalism to survive ...