I fully expect to see an exponential increase in new HIV infections,” one expert said. Women and girls are more susceptible ...

Five years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic served as a wake-up call. Since then, health experts worldwide have sat on tenterhooks, ...

The country’s elimination marks a milestone in Africa’s fight to control and end the disease, the second-leading infectious ...

Researchers have uncovered the origins and genetic diversity of the Fulani, one of Africa’s largest pastoral populations. The ...

A new retrospective, laboratory-based observational study provides detailed insights into the causes of fevers of unknown ...

Map showing the environmental sampling locations focused on filling gaps in West Africa, West-Central Africa, and parts of ...

Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an island.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday formalizing his announcement earlier this week that he’ll freeze assistance to South Africa for a law aiming to address some of the wrongs ...

Instead, it addressed South Africa, freezing aid to the country among other measures over its government’s alleged “egregious actions.” “We will not be bullied,” South Africa’s ...

As climate change complicates growing the region’s historically emblematic crops, like olives and lemons, Amata is seeing ...

The mysterious, silent giants face increasing threats in Africa. Relocating animals ... This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Of all the large African ...

WASHINGTON − President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order vowing to stop “aid and assistance” to South Africa over “human rights violations” including a land reform act ...