African health experts have renewed commitment to accelerate efforts to end Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) that continue to affect over a billion people globally, 40% of whom live in the African ...

In a determined effort to alleviate the burden of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) across the continent, African health experts convened in the Togolese capital, Lomé, issuing a strong call for ...

In the 1980s and 1990s, National Animal Production Research Institute started a cross breeding programme to produce the Nigerian goat.

What are kissing bugs? Kissing bugs, or Triatomine bugs, are named so as they tend to bite people on the face and near the ...

WASHINGTON ‒ Adam Sanchez remembers tears streaming down a student’s face as his high school class left the lower level of the National Museum of African American History and Culture a few ...

This event is commonly called the "African Humid Period (AHP)". The AHP was a direct result of African monsoonal climate responses to periodic variations in the Earth's orbit around the Sun that ...

A community of mixed-race families has lived and fished in South Africa’s Langebaan Lagoon since the 1800s. Starting with the former apartheid government in the 1970s, a series of conservation ...

South African celebrities Nirvana Nokwe-Mseleku, Mulisa Mudau and Luyanda Zuma have entered Miss South Africa to advocate for meaningful causes beyond beauty. Mudau aims to address colourism, while ...

If you are interested in speaking at the African-American Graduation Celebration, please adhere to the following speech guidelines: Please include your preferred name when you register for the PAGC.

Most estimates of postwar killings of African-Americans amount to about 4,000 public lynchings committed between 1877 and 1968. But what about those who were assassinated or disappeared before ...

In 2003, when officials finally approved the idea of an African-American museum in Washington, they could not have foreseen how fateful the timing would be. The opening this month of the National ...