An oral treatment is now saving lives across East and Southern Africa, replacing painful injections and lengthy hospital stays for patients with a rare but deadly strain of sleeping sickness.

As millions of pilgrims flocked to the famed Ugandan shrine in Namugongo in the days leading to commemoration of the ...

The Namugongo shrine is where St. Charles Lwanga, a Ugandan convert to the Catholic Church, and his companions were burned to ...

The Development Research and Advocacy Centre (DRAC), a Non-Governmental Organisation has launched the second phase of its flagship ...

The volcanic activity and tectonic splitting of the East African Rift Valley is probably driven by activity deep within the Earth, a new study reveals, starting where the core meets the mantle.

In February, the African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council (PSC) endorsed coordination between the Luanda and Nairobi processes, leading to a joint East African Community-Southern African ...

Health facilities forced to tap Facility Improvement Fund to fight NTDs.Worms, jiggers, bilharzia and intestinal worms ...

Government and equestrian industry are working together to try to ensure Britain’s herd is protected should African horse sickness (AHS) arrive. But there is a great deal of work to do.

China is increasingly using soft power and strategic investments to influence Africa, aiming to reshape the global order in its favour. Through the Belt and Road Initiative, media influence, ...

But St Francis Xavier Chapel, which has a strong claim to be the oldest surviving Catholic church in sub-Saharan Africa, faces a new threat today. A three-storey building belonging to a Chinese ...