Africa News

By Patralekha Chatterjee, Geneva, July 6: South Asia - including India - needs an additional 2.8 million health workers.

ESTHER RANTZEN spends a week in Kenya's Maasai Mara and finds the recent troubles haven't dimmed its magic.

The recent Human Rights Watch Report on Ogaden has shaken the criminal tyrannical regime of Abyssinia from its corrupt, barbaric and inhuman foundations.

Chad said on Wednesday its security forces had killed 66 followers of an Islamic spiritual leader who was threatening to launch a holy war against Christians and atheists from Africa to Europe.

The eyes of a world often drawn to disasters are currently fixed on Zimbabwe, a Southern African country of some 12 million.

This adage of ancient provenance is a heart-rending plea for justice to pour like the rain! It supplicated justice to deluge our world like the Noachian deluge of old did in the fertile minds of the ancient ...

A FRICA is at risk of more border and poverty-ignited conflicts which will require the African Union to take urgent steps to save the continent from an escalation, an expert body of the organisation has warned ...

The French are at it again. And what have they done this time? Has Sarkozy threatened to invade Ireland as punishment for our democratic impertinence? Have they called for a boycott of Italian products ...

Today might be the longest day in Jean-Claude Diaminda's life. But, fingers crossed and God willing, it also should be one of the happiest.

Comedy, Adventure, Crime Simon Callow, Jim Carrey, Tommy Davidson Jim Carrey reprises his role as the eccentric detective in this follow-up to"Ace Ventura: Pet Detective." This sequel finds Ace on assignment in ...

FLORENCE : The energy of Africa resonated through the hilltop estate, into the sylvan olive grove and around the swimming pool, where fountains of fire rose from the water; while on the walls of the palazzo, ...

The sun set and rose so many times, he stopped counting. In Chad, he slept in refugee camps plagued with sickness, starvation and flies.

One weekend each year, Esudele Fagbenro and Safisha Hill transform a Texas farm into an 18th century African village, replete with thatched huts, craftsmen and rites of passage into adulthood.

Halfway across the globe, a tenth of the world's population bears the brunt of all HIV infections, with 76 percent of AIDS-related deaths last year occurring in Sub-Saharan Africa.

These last days I have been flooded by mails from numerous Somalis engulfed in the secessionist and lawless pseudo-state of Somaliland, who denounce in the most categorical terms the shameful practices of ...

Experts fear new front with al-Qaida as terror group switches focus from Iraq Somalia, north Africa and Yemen offer fresh concern Claims of strategic defeat premature, say experts Iraqi soldiers in Shulla, ...

With its resource-hungry push into the sub-Sahara, Beijing puts the planet to the test.

Issue date: 6/4/08 Section: Campus News David Fanshawe recording Luo dancers in Sudan.

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - Jeff Probst says the upcoming season of "Survivor" has already hit a few snags.

Hoisting plastic cups of "Obama" beer and gathering around television sets, Kenyans celebrated Wednesday as Barack Obama laid claim to the U.S. Democratic presidential nomination.