In the impoverished slums of Nairobi, Jacinter Awino navigates her daily chores amidst a maze of rusty iron sheets. The small tin shack that lacks a toilet and running water has been her family's shelter for years, costing about $380 to build. Her husband, who earns about $75 per month from casual construction jobs, struggles to provide for t...

 In an attempt to tackle the stigma and reluctance of people to test for HIV, South African authorities are recruiting traditional healers. The healers are part of a pilot study to encourage more people, especially the young, to have the test and to seek medical treatment if needed. Shadrack Mashabane is a traditional healer in the small town ...

 The late Malawian Vice President will be buried on Monday in his home district of Ntcheu 180km south of Lilongwe. The 51-year-old Saulos Chilima and 8 other individuals including the ex-wife of the former Malawian President died when a twin-propeller aircraft went down in a hilly, forested area in bad weather. A state service was conducted on...

 The shores of Lake Victoria in Kisumu City bustle with fishermen selling their catch. There's been a surge of demand for one particular fish - Nile perch. These will fetch high prices at the market here. But it's not the flesh that buyers are after - it's their swim bladders, dubbed "mondo" or "maw". These vital organs, essential for buoyancy...

 South African health authorities say two people have died this week after contracting Mpox, and it appears there is local transmission of the disease. The health ministry said Thursday that a 38-year-old man died in the eastern KwaZulu-Natal province on Wednesday, the same day a laboratory test confirmed that he had contracted the virus. Anot...

 A boat carrying more than 270 passengers has capsized on a river near Congo's capital of Kinshasa, leaving more than 80 dead, President Félix Tshisekedi said Wednesday. It was the latest deadly boat accident in the central African country where overloading is often blamed, including in February when dozens lost their lives after an overloaded...

 Riots erupted in Algerian desert city last weekend after months of water shortages left taps running dry and forced residents to queue to access water for their households. In Tiaret, a central Algerian city of less than 200,000 located 155 miles (250 kilometers) southwest of Algiers protestors wearing balaclavas set tires aflame and set up m...

The death toll in an attack in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Friday by militants and Islamist rebels has risen to at least 41, the government said on Monday. Red Cross volunteers and young people from the village of Masala in the eastern North Kivu province have been searching for bodies since the incident. Locals said armed men using g...

 Pope Francis gathered the Palestinian and Israeli ambassadors to the Vatican Gardens on Friday to pray for an end to the war in Gaza, marking the 10th anniversary of a similar encounter with the Israeli and Palestinian presidents with a new appeal for peace. "Every day I pray that this war will finally end," Francis told the small gathering, ...

 A Zambian court on Friday jailed 22 Chinese nationals over cybercrimes that included internet fraud and online scams targeting Zambians and other people from Singapore, Peru and the United Arab Emirates. The Magistrates Court in the capital, Lusaka, jailed them for periods ranging from 7 to 11 years. The court also fined them between $1,500 t...

27th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum: Shifting Geopolitical Focus and Exploring New Markets in Global SouthBy Prof. Maurice OkoliShareTweetPinMail All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the Translate Website button below the author's name (only available in desktop version). To receive Global Research's D...

 At least 100 people were killed, and dozens were injured after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces attacked a village in Gezira province in Sudan on Wednesday, officials said. Women, children, and elderly were among the victims in the attacks by the Rapid Support Forces on Wad al-Noura village in Gezira, Mini Arko Minawi, the governor of Da...

 Nigeria's Federal Government has announced that it will acquire a maximum of 3.5 million power meters by the end of 2024 in a move to increase revenue collection in the West African state. The country's Ministry of Power, through its cabinet secretary Adebayo Adelabu, announced this, echoing the recent resolution by the government to purchase...

 A fire at a displacement camp in eastern Congo destroyed around 50 makeshift tents, leaving dozens of families without shelter, according to the United Nations, which said the fire is believed to have started during cooking at a camp. The Muganga displaced people camp near the provincial capital Goma was hit by fire Wednesday. It had already ...

 Kenyan cobbler, Stephen Ochieng's life was changed forever following an accident a few years ago. He was standing in a crowd of people at a packed station, all trying to board a train to get home after work when he fell under the train. The damage to his legs was so severe they both had to be amputated. Now, a new 3D printing company, Prothea...

7 new bodies have been found as exhumations continued in the Kenyan forest of Shakahola on Monday As exhumations continued on Monday in a Kenyan forest where hundreds of victims of a doomsday cult were found buried last year, seven more bodies were discovered. The total number of people unearthed from the mass graves now stands at 436. The governme...

Morocco organized its first electronic gaming fair in Rabat last week, bringing together developers, startups and gamers. Organized by the Ministry of Youth, Culture, and Communication, the Morocco Gaming Expo aims to bolster the burgeoning gaming industry in the country. The expo featured four main sections including a display area with over 70 ex...

The two main labour unions in Nigeria have declared an indefinite strike as from Monday over what they terms as a disagreement on a new minimum wage with the government. The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) both had issued warnings on Friday that they would proceed with the strike shoulkd the government fail to head...

 Dozens of women bring their empty jerry cans to the public fountain in Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province, to fetch drinking water for their families. But the wait at the fountain can last several hours. The city has been hit by a water shortage due to its adduction system reaching its limits as the city is growin...

Совершенно новый вид динозавров обнаружила на берегу озера Кариба в Зимбабве международная группа палеонтологов из ЮАР, США и других стран. Ящер, которому дали имя Musankwa sanyatiensis, обитал на территории Африки в период позднего триаса около 210 млн лет назад, пишет «Газета.Ru» со ссылкой на исследование, опубликованное в научном журнале Acta P...