Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) affects about 7.7 million people worldwide, and this has been increasing annually due to an increasing population in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean. Most people living with SCD reside in sub-Saharan Africa.1 About …

DAR ES SALAAM: THE Tanzania Epilepsy Association (TEA) has said that the risk of epilepsy patients losing their lives in the country has decreased from an average of six to four, citing educational efforts that have contributed significantly to reducing …

Presbyterian Church of Kenya. [File, Standard] The  Presbyterian Church of East Africa (PCEA) has urged President William Ruto to address issues affecting the health and education sectors. It also condemned the recent attack on Opposition leaders, …

What is collapsing in South Africa is not just a party but a political model and the idea that liberation credentials alone can indefinitely substitute for democratic renewal. South Africa’s 2024 general election did not merely dent the African National …

MANCHESTER, United Kingdom — On March 21, 2025, television personality Jamie Laing raised more than $2 million for charity. BBC reporters Jamie Milton and Emily McGarvey reported that “the former Made in Chelsea star ran five consecutive ultramarathons in …

Background Sleep is a fundamental physiological process that supports cognitive, emotional, and physical functioning, all of which are important for successful engagement in daily activities including academic participation.1 Good sleeping plays a critical …

… President) Charismatic pan-Africanist and architect of Ujamaa … of internet blackouts to paralyse civic mobilisation, and … evaporating. Tanzania’s reputation as a rising East African economic … requires. The Illegitimacy of Victory: Tanzania’s Democratic …

Laetitia Bader, Human Rights Watch’s deputy Africa director, and Jean-Baptiste Gallopin, senior Crisis and Conflict advisor, traveled to eastern Chad in mid-December 2025 where they interviewed dozens of refugees who had fled El Fasher, the capital of …

Bongani Ntombela|Published 5 hours ago 4min South Africa enters 2026 standing at a familiar yet increasingly complex crossroads. After more than a decade of low growth, high unemployment, and declining state capacity, the country now faces a narrowing …

On December 7, 2025, Reuters carried a stark headline that rippled across Uganda’s political landscape: “Bobi Wine says Uganda security forces beat him.” The wire story reported that Uganda’s leading opposition figure, Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as …