The Kano state commissioner of health, Dr Abubakar Yusuf, has said diabetes can be treated and its consequences can be ...

Around 57 percent of children in low- and middle-income countries cannot read proficiently by age 10, and in sub-Saharan Africa ... and Arkansas ranked 41st out of 51. In the new ATLAS (Arkansas ...

An obscure company that won a R428m tender to bring life-saving healthcare equipment to public hospitals may have done so on the back of allegedly fraudulent documents.  A joint Daily Maverick and ...

In the world, according to estimates, they are spoken beyond that 7,000 languagesbut many of them are at risk of ...

Growth in sub-Saharan Africa is projected at 3.6% in 2024, unchanged from 2023, with a modest increase to 4.2% in 2025 -- insufficient to significantly reduce poverty or address development challenges ...

The International Monetary Fund Africa Department said while the economic outlook for sub-Saharan Africa is gradually improving, implementing reforms is increasingly difficult because of ...

C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) was visible to the naked eye earlier in October as the comet, which is sort of an icy space snowball, flew past the sun and Earth. Fresh telescope footage from the U ...

and extreme weather events have led to downward revisions to the outlook for the Middle East and Central Asia and that for sub-Saharan Africa, it said. These have been compensated for by upgrades to ...

Rapid urbanization and population growth in sub-Saharan Africa has increased the incidence of asthma in young people, but the lack of diagnosis and care means that many young people are suffering ...

The Sahara was also once underwater, and home to several rivers between 50-100 million years ago, including a waterway – known as the Trans-Saharan seaway – that ran south from the Mediterranean, ...