Guinea’s government said Tuesday it would investigate why troops opened fire on protesters at a pro-democracy rally. A human rights group said 157 people were killed and more than 1,000 were injured. While saying it would investigate, the...

Many women living in poverty in Ethiopia, India and Kenya, are excluded from government lending schemes, or face prejudice in banking systems. ActionAid’s microcredit schemes are working to help these women form successful businesses. Women...

Prostitutes in large numbers have taken over some popular streets in the Federal Capital Territory at night.At Port Harcourt crescent off Gimbiya street, Garki, Abuja, our reporter observed half nude ladies exposing their busts and panties, beckoning on...

A warning this week from the British aid group Oxfam that the humanitarian crisis in Somalia is the worst in Africa is not new. Last year, the U.N. called the situation in the Horn of Africa nation the world’s worst. But Oxfam’s is a...

An overnight fire a primary school dormitory in Uganda killed 19 school children and two adults, police said Tuesday.

Uganda’s government has banned a workshop for prostitutes scheduled to start on Wednesday in Entebbe. “We don’t take any delight at all in the idea that prostitutes are coming together to devise ways of spreading their vice,”...