MAPUTO - Mozambique has lost half its elephants over the past five years, part of a wave of poaching driven by red-hot demand for ivory from fast-growing Asian economies such as Chinaand Vietnam, a

Alfredo Quatro says we must defend mangrove forests – which protect our shorelines and diverse marine life – against man-made development

Dakar — In a first-of-its-kind march in Senegal, nearly a thousand people - including the country's environmental minister - took to the streets of Dakar Sunday asking for action to deal with clima

Ugandans continue to pay more money for goods and services as a result of the drought and a weak currency, according to official figures.

A vaccine developer from Nigeria, Dr Simon Agwale Friday in Paris, France, presented his progress report on Ebola vaccine saying that he "developed an EBOV candidate vaccine that is highly immunoge

Health officials in the country say a measles outbreak is rapidly spreading across the country.

When Oupa Sonopi started working in the mine at the age of 25, he was never informed of the high risk of contracting tuberculosis (TB).

Abuja — A new research released recently has indicated that substandard medicines are more prevalent than fakes in the world's most malaria-burdened country, Nigeria.

Solar, biomass and wind energy systems are popping up all over the country and feeding clean energy into the strained electrical grid

Rising greenhouse gases have boosted rainfall in the Sahel region of Africa, easing droughts that killed 100,000 people in the 1970s and 1980s, in a rare positive effect of climate change, a study