According to a 2018 World Health Organization report, 60% of South African drinkers aged 15 and older engage in heavy episodic drinking. Evidence suggests that tax increases on alcohol have ...

Analysis - Stars are born, live and die in spectacular ways, with their deaths marked by one of the biggest known explosions in the Universe. Like a campfire needs wood to keep burning, a star relies ...

The Ressano Garcia border post, between Mozambique and South Africa, reopened on Friday morning after a night of violence.

Tropical Cyclone Chido is affecting multiple countries in Southern Africa, potentially impacting approximately 2.5 million people across Mozambique, Malawi, and the Comoros. The cyclone already hit ...

Zambia and Malawi have suspended the import of fuel via the central Mozambican port of Beira because of the demonstrations and riots following allegations of massive fraud in the general elections ...

Zimbabwe is ramping up measures to mitigate the potential impacts of Tropical Cyclone Chido, currently positioned northeast of Madagascar.

Analysis - The backlog of subsidised public housing in South Africa is estimated at 2.4 million. In this interview, Hlengiwe Maila, a research fellow at the School of Public Management and ...

Analysis - Infectious or chronic diseases such as long COVID, Alzheimer's disease and traumatic brain injury can cause inflammation in the brain, or neuroinflammation, that weakens muscles. While ...

The global arms trade has always been a shadowy industry, operating in the margins where war and profit intersect. It's a ...

Announcement - The African Development Bank's Board of Directors has approved a $30 million equity investment in Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) for the rollout of innovative "green shares" aimed at ...

The Yobe State Government, in collaboration with ActionAid Nigeria, has organised its inaugural cultural summit, aimed at showcasing the state's rich cultural heritage and artifacts.

Recently, participants of the Continental Conference on Peace and Prosperity organized by Ethiopia's Ministry of Peace (MoP) had the opportunity to visit the headquarters of t Federal Police ...