‘We’re seeing the tip of the iceberg’: Neurologists in Zambia upend understandings of multiple sclerosis in the region

‘Born in Blackness’: A new book centers Africa in the expansive history of slavery

Discussion: Sub-Saharan Africa’s deepening coronavirus crisis

Pangolin smuggling: The next coronavirus time bomb?

COVID-19 threatens global progress in fight against other communicable diseases 

Climate disruption is worsening global economic inequality

Abortions rise worldwide when US cuts funding to women’s health clinics, study finds

A second HIV patient has been ‘cured,’ but researchers say reducing cases is still the top priority

Zimbabwe’s internet crackdown shows the ‘economic sabotage’ of shutdowns

Tanzanian president bluntly attacks contraception, saying high birth rates are good for economy

Russia expands its military and business ties to Africa

Women with heart disease in sub-Saharan Africa face fertility risks and social stigma as their greatest challenges

Ugandan research project hopes to make nutritious grasshoppers available year-round

Is China worsening the developing world’s environmental crisis?

Trump’s ‘global gag rule on steroids’ threatens Congolese clinics

Trevor Noah gets personal

Nigeria’s #BringBackOurGirls campaign celebrates 21 returnees

A pastor and an imam ‘programmed to hate one another’ bridge a religious divide

Facebook safety checks arrive in Nigeria, but some ask if it’s worth celebrating

A South African university sheds the language of apartheid

Nigerians fear Obama will push gay rights in the White House during meeting with nation’s new leader

Nigerians vie for a life-changing slip of paper

Targeting the militants of al-Shabab with airstrikes is easier said than done

Al-Shabab are masters of terror — and masters of the media

‘Digital thuggery’ comes to the forefront in Nigeria’s elections

Satellite images offer ‘vivid’ evidence of Boko Haram devastation

‘It’s not about you being a Muslim and me being a Christian,’ says one Nigerian activist

Liberians worry that next week’s elections might spread Ebola

West Africans have another virus to worry about — Lassa fever

Here’s one reason Nigeria has halted the spread of Ebola

Why Ebola patients are being turned away at the gates of treatment centers in Liberia

Paul Farmer says the best way to stop Ebola is to build up health care in Africa

Paul Farmer says the best way to stop Ebola is to build up health care in Africa

In 100 days since the mass abduction of Nigerian schoolgirls, 11 of the girls’ parents have died

In 100 days since the mass abduction of Nigerian schoolgirls, 11 of the girls’ parents have died

This doctor is battling on the frontlines of the ebola crisis in Guinea

Could all the attention to #BringBackOurGirls backfire and empower Boko Haram?

How the abduction of more than 200 teenage girls is uniting Nigerian Christians and Muslims

How the abduction of more than 200 teenage girls is uniting Nigerian Christians and Muslims

Why three towns in South Sudan have ‘utterly collapsed’

An American doctor may have solved a deadly mystery about malaria

A shifting climate could mean trouble for one of Africa’s staple crops

Scarred by childbirth, mothers are finding help to heal and start over

Video: Those in Cape Town celebrate Mandela’s life

JFK’s Peace Corps architect recalls one trip where he felt stalked by history

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Research suggests global warming related to increased violence

Next papal selection could bring first non-European pope

In Kenya, urban farming changing families’ reality

Cancer’s New Battleground: Infectious diseases a leading cancer cause

Denver group turns abandoned barn into collaboration space for fighting global poverty

Researchers suggest your basic political leanings may be coded in your genes

Report: U.S. has established extensive covert surveillance operation in sub-Saharan Africa

Two forms of birth control put women at risk for HIV