In African wax print dresses and tight-fitting evening wear, the "plus-size" models strutted up the runway in Kisumu, western ...

For Nomama Mei, creating a “conservation garden” in the province of her birth holds a profoundly personal and cultural ...

As temperatures rose in Middle Eastern and North African countries over the last two decades, cancer mortality among women did too, according to a new study of a region that is particularly ...

The Nairobi Process, led by Kenya’s former president Uhuru Kenyatta under the auspices of the East African Community (EAC), included military and diplomatic efforts. The deployment of the EAC Regional ...

And then there are sensual and beautiful aspects of African sexuality ... Hundreds of thousands of African women die in childbirth each year, sexual diversity as a right is basically non-existent ...

If elected, Tshabalala will be the first woman to run the AfDB in its history. Zambia’s Samuel Maimbo has the backing of two regional blocs – the Southern African Development Community, and the Common ...

Senator Risch's comments follow a recent outcry from Washington over the alleged mistreatment of two prominent East African activists ... International Women of Courage Award from the US ...

What does the heated atmosphere mean for the East African Community, founded in 2000 by Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania? Citizens have been allowed to travel freely between the member states since the ...