Providing one dose every six months saved one in four babies, researchers reported. Now the W.H.O. will consider recommending routine use.

A US-owned local radio station has been shut down for insulting women in Rwanda, authorities say. The Amazing Grace Christian Radio, a radio station that airs religious sermons, had its broadcasting license revoked after one of its presenters, Nicolas Niyibikora, repeatedly referred to women as evil, Rwanda officials said. The Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority (RURA) announced it had taken away the station's license on Tuesday.

Sub-Saharan Africa is slipping into a new debt crisis, with 40 per cent of the region's countries now at high risk of debt distress — double the proportion of five years ago. With the number of countries already unable to service their debts doubling in the past year to eight, officials at the IMF are urging all African countries to raise taxes to provide more scope for paying interest, which has increased to levels last experienced at the start of the century.

The country in southern Africa has changed its name to mark 50 years of independence, its king said, according to reports.

The elephant staggered and keeled over in the tall grass in southern Tanzania, where some of the world's worst poaching has happened. It wasn't a killer who targeted her but a conservation official, immobilizing her with a dart containing drugs. Soon she was snoring loudly, and they propped open her trunk with a twig to help her breathe. They slid a 26-pound GPS tracking collar around the rough skin of her neck and injected an antidote, bringing her back to her feet. After inspecting the contraption with her trunk, she ambled back to her family herd.

A new journal to showcase Africa’s often-overlooked scientific research has been launched to give the continent’s scientists better global recognition. Scientific African will be the first “mega-journal” in Africa. It was unveiled in Kigali last week at Africa’s biggest science conference, the Next Einstein Forum (NEF) conference, and the first issue is scheduled to be published at the end of the summer.

Somalia and half of Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania are expected to split from Africa to form a new continent. Forces of the Earth are the strongest at the base of the valley, yet it is also here that geological processes are most active. The rains have only aggravated the situation by washing away the ash, eventually exposing the cracks.

Heavy rains caused havoc in Kenya in March, collapsing hospital walls, flooding entire neighborhoods, and closing off major highways. The downpour also exposed a fault line that geologists now say is evidence that the African continent will split into two over the next tens of millions of years.

Justin Kapitu is dying. He does not know it yet, and the doctors treating the 22-year-old rebel fighter are unlikely to tell him soon, but his chances of surviving more than a few months are virtually non-existent. Kapitu was wounded in a clash between his rebel group and a rival faction in December. Even in the remote green forested valleys and hills of the far east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where the battle took place, few paid much attention. Such scrappy, bloody confrontations have become an almost daily occurrence.

Her fight against apartheid, later overshadowed by scandal, both benefited from and resented the celebrity status of her longtime husband, Nelson Mandela.

Hailed as mother of the 'new' South Africa, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's legacy as an anti-apartheid heroine was undone when she was revealed to be a ruthless ideologue prepared to sacrifice laws and lives in pursuit of revolution and redress.

IF WHITE farmers want to flee for a “racist country” like Australia they should leave the keys to their houses and tractors behind, the head of South Africa’s radical Marxist opposition party says.

The glass found in Ile-Ife last year has now been confirmed to be African in origin and nature.

Weak institutions, rampant corruption, and sustained violence have brought the Democratic Republic of Congo to the brink of collapse. By Stuart A. Reid.

The Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced last week that it will now consider all permits for importing elephant trophies from African nations on a “case-by-case basis," breaking from President Trump's earlier promises to maintain an Obama-era ban on the practice. In a formal memorandum issued on Thursday, FWS said it will withdraw its 2017 Endangered Species Act (ESA) findings for trophies of African elephants from Zimbabwe and Zambia, “effective immediately.”

The 1,860km-long Uhuru Railway is an ageing yet vital lifeline that connects rural communities across some of Tanzania and Zambia’s most spectacular landscapes.

South Africa says it has finally traced the source of a listeria outbreak that has killed 180 people in the past year - said to make it the worst in history. The source is a factory operated by Enterprise Foods in Polokwane in Limpopo. More facilities are being tested to see if they contributed to the outbreak which infected almost 1,000 people. The health minister warned cross-contamination of other processed meats could have occurred in shops.

Africa is definitely not left out as far as the global bitcoin and cryptocurrency revolution is concerned. There is a growing cryptocurrency market in many countries across the African continent. In 2017, the growth in the demand for bitcoin in Nigeria increased by almost 1500 percent, second only to China. This situation has led to the establishment of a number of cryptocurrency market services that are enjoying an unprecedented level of annual turnover.

Travel the length of the Nile with BBC News to find out how a new dam being built in Ethiopia is threatening to cause a serious rift with neighbouring countries Egypt and Sudan.