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

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Miners are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, water and other basic necessities after police closed off the ...

Relations between South Africa and the United States will be more ‘practical’ with less solidarity, says South African ...

French-Algerian journalist and writer Kamel Daoud’s novel ‘Houris’, which sheds light on Algeria’s civil war, has won ...

The pogrom was apparently planned well in advance of the match, with instigators tracking and disseminating the flight and ...

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

South Africa's government says it will not help an estimated 4,000 illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country's North ...

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

The meeting marked a continuation of close cooperation between China and Sierra Leone, with China already having pledged to ...