East Africa

MIT researchers instructed biomedical innovation mini-courses at both Kenyatta University and Mbarara University of Science & Technology designed to empower local biomedical engineers to solve local problems.

Belgium's Lornoy David and Seppe Lodewijck are apparently part of a new trafficking trend

Nick Niarchos reports on the Democratic Republic of the Congo's attempts to use its vast mineral resources as leverage in foreign policy amid military threats.

The animals graze the vegetation into a picturesque turf, fertilize the soil with their dung and disperse seeds over large distances

NAIROBI, Apr 10 (IPS) - Women farmers face structural issues that prevent them from realizing their full potential, from societal perceptions that dictate their limitations to poor land.

4,000-year-old burials in Sudan reveal world's oldest known evidence of head straps

A global surge in cholera is threatening vulnerable people from Angola to Myanmar, fuelled by conflict, natural disasters and climate change, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.

As the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has intensified in recent months, the UN peacekeeping mission, MONUSCO, has been working to protect civilians - including in areas under the control of the Rwandan-backed M23 armed group in North Kivu province.

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A new study says early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago

Two vessels capsized off Yemen late Thursday, said a spokesperson for the U.N.'s International Organization for Migration.

The UN is reporting that four boats with immigrants from East Africa capsized off of Yemen leaving 186 missing. Two crewmembers were rescued.

The discovery of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools upends what we know about tool manufacturing in East Africa.

With M23 rebels having seized control of Goma, a key city in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), control of the DRC's mineral wealth

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A performer at Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show unfurled a flag referencing both Sudan and the Gaza Strip, providing a brief protest referencing two wars shaking the Middle East. Security at the stadium detained the performer shortly after waving the flag atop a car

President Trump's mission to upend the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, has left lifesaving food and medicine stuck in ports and warehouses.

Sustained global health investment is the need of the hour

Her name at birth was Abake – meaning 'born to be loved by all' among the Tarkar people of Western Africa.

Tropical Cyclone Chido struck southeast Africa, killing "perhaps a few thousand" in France's Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte on Saturday and then hitting Mozambique on Sunday, officials said.

After almost 30 years without a substantiated sighting, researchers have concluded that the slender-billed curlew is extinct.