Scientists say they have discovered humanity's oldest known drawing on a small fragment of rock in South Africa.
The drawing is about 73,000 years old, and shows cross-hatch lines sketched onto stone with red ochre pigment.
Scientists discovered the small fragment...
The population of hungry people is rising across the world, a UN report has shown, with more than a quarter of them in Africa.
Out of the 821 million people who faced shortage of food in 2017, 257 million were...
Africa is the second largest continent in the world. It is also world’s second most populous continent and one of the richest - In terms of resources - continent in the world, yet the region also has the highest...
In a report drafted by Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) World Factbook, African countries were ranked in the top 16 positions with the highest rate of HIV infections among adults (aged 15- 49).
According to the report, Swaziland leads the chart...
For the most part, SA is a safe place to live but, that does not mean that the area is free from crime and violence. infarct, there are many regions in South Africa dealing with rising rates of violent...
Female lawmakers with artificial nails and false eyelashes have been banned from Tanzania’s parliament, local media reported on Monday.
Job Ndugai, the Speaker of Parliament, who made the announcement, stated that both cosmetic trends could cause health problems.
The ban has...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), one of the foremost surveyors of economies around the world, has revised its 2018 economic growth forecasts and West African darling, Ghana, has lost Africa’s top spot to East African giant, Ethiopia.
Ghana, West Africa’s...
In many African societies, the girl child is seen as an object for sexual gratification. They are born, raised to be wives and given to men as old as their fathers because it is believed the girl child came...
An outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region has killed 10 people over the past two weeks and more than 1,200 people have the illness.
Those affected are being treated at the main hospital in the regional...
Liberia has been ranked country with the worst military in Africa by Global Firepower Index 2018 they are closely followed by Sierra Leone and Somalia.
Nigeria's neighbour Ghana also made this years list of weakest military in Africa 2018, they...
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