Microfinance has become essential for giving unbanked people access to financial services. However, the rise in unpaid loans is threatening the stability of many institutions, especially in fragile ...

ECOWAS member state transport ministers adopted a regional plan to cut the cost of air travel in West Africa to eliminate air ...

The government is preparing to trial a medically-assisted treatment programme to help heroin users who want to quit the drug.

The amount of Premium Motor Spirits (Petrol) imported into Nigeria surged in October despite the recent boom in the country’s ...

An estimated 4,000 illegal gold miners are hiding underground in South Africa after the government cut off food and water in ...

Activists are planting trees in an effort to protect disappearing forests in Mali, but residents are cutting and selling ...

Small-scale fisheries play a vital role in providing food and livelihoods for millions of people around the world, ...

The remaining United Nations mission in Mali will start leaving on Friday to bring an end to the 11-year-old peacekeeping mission that helped the country fight militants seeking to control parts of ...

Several hundred people are believed to remain in an illegal mine in South Africa after the government cut off vital supplies ...

A teenager remains in hospital in critical condition after being hit by a car over the weekend, Mounties in Richmond say.

Report also refers to Israel ‘using starvation as a weapon of war’ and running ‘apartheid system’ in West Bank ...

Chad Posthumus, a centre for the Winnipeg Sea Bears, is in critical condition after undergoing surgery for a brain aneurysm, ...