Scientific advances, initiatives, and injustices in Sub–Saharan Africa shape the Black diaspora through ancestry, migration, ...

While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.

Milicent Muyoma has been turned away twice from the clinic where she collects her HIV medication in Mathare, an informal ...

I’M OFTEN ASKED WHY AFRICA MATTERS. It’s an understandable question in a world of real responsibilities, real demands, and ...

DECATUR, Ga., Jan. 30, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — On 30 January 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that Niger has been verified for eliminating the transmission of onchocerciasis ...

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

according to the World Health Organization. In the United States, more than 95% of children with sickle cell survive to adulthood. The program in sub-Saharan Africa is intended to reduce those ...

New research using publicly-shared DNA barcodes and citizen science images have provided new evidence on the establishment and spread of a biological control agent used for the control of the major ...

Sub-Saharan Africa ... Burkina Faso now leads the world in terrorism deaths with a staggering 68 per cent increase, and with little support to reverse the trend. “Africa has tragically remained ...

NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESS Newswire / February 7, 2025 / SAPBy Alexandra van der PloegThe 2025 World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting, held under the theme "Collaboration for the Intelligent Age," brough ...

Libya deported more than 600 men from Niger last month as North African countries — financed by the European Union to tackle migration — have ramped up expulsions of sub-Saharan Africans.

At least 29 bodies of migrants have been recovered in two locations in the southeast and west of Libya, a security ...