Nigerian PhD student Zahrah Ibrahim has landed a prestigious engineering award in Scotland.
Zahrah's impeccable engineering efforts were recognized by the University of Aberdeen School of Engineering.
In a post on Facebook, the university said, "The School of Engineering would like...
In Tanzania’s Zanzibar region, traditional healers are being registered by authorities keen to regulate the practitioners who treat everything from depression to hernias.
About 340 healers have been registered with their toolkits of herbs, holy scriptures and massages, in accordance...
A Zambian Bank worker has been suspended for allegedly sleeping with over 200 men while promising them jobs.
The men are reported to be both clients and job seekers, most of whom she lured into bed after promising them jobs...
Kenya has banned foreigners from adopting local children and will work toward a new policy governing the process, the presidency said on Thursday.
The move follows that of neighboring Ethiopia, which also stopped adoption of children by foreigners in 2018,...
A recently released Oxfam report has revealed that the continent's three richest billionaires have more wealth than the poorest 40% - or 650 million people across the continent.
The three richest people on the continent according to Forbes 2019 billionaires...
Shorter people are at greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a study published Tuesday.
Each additional 10 centimetres in height translates into a 41 percent smaller chance of contracting the disease in men and a 33 percent...
First Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has died at the age of 95.
He had been hospitalised in Singapore where he had been receiving treatment since April.
Announcing his death, his successor President Emmerson Mnangagwa eulogised him as an icon of liberation...
A law in eSwatini (Formerly Swaziland) that relegated married women to the legal status of minors under the guardianship of their husbands has been ruled unconstitutional by the kingdom’s High Court.
The High Court of eSwatini ruled on Friday (30...
A Zimbabwean Scholar has been Honored with a Statue in New York City alongside Oprah Winfrey and 8 others. She is the only African woman to have received this honor.
Tererai Trent appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show in 2009...
A large scientific study into the biological basis of sexual behavior has confirmed there is no single “gay gene” but that a complex mix of genetics and environment affects whether a person has same-sex sexual partners.
The research, conducted at...
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