UNHCR and its partners are being forced to close or scale back health, education and other crucial programmes for refugees in Chad due to severe funding shortages.Unprecedented cuts in global ...

Millions are trapped between conflict, neglect and the dilemma of flight.Two years of war have created what is now the world's worst humanitarian and displacement crisis, intensified by extreme cuts ...

South African schools have long been celebrated for their electrifying war cries, a spirited cultural legacy that echoes nationwide across sports fields and school grounds.

This year, World Immunization Week/African Vaccination Week, which is being marked under the theme Immunization For All is Humanly Possible, aims to promote the life-saving power of immunization to ...

An increase in vaccine coverage in Africa is helping protect millions of people from life-threatening diseases such as measles, polio and cervical cancer, ...

These discoveries suggest that humans were able to live in rainforest before they left Africa, the home of our species. Until now, though, the oldest firm evidence for people living in African ...

Countries long associated with emigration, such as Mexico and the Philippines, are now rich enough to have passed their ...

Another cause is economics. Many African countries are entering a phase in their development in which people are still poor ...

As the gateway to the Sahara, the Sahel and the Horn of Africa, Sudan’s location gives it enormous geostrategic importance ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has revealed that despite immunization being one of the most effective public health ...