After a recent ruling by the Gauteng High Court, a same-sex couple's plans to start a family through surrogacy in South Africa have been thwarted, raising questions about their future and intentions.

Were you told that gold mining in southern Africa started after 1852? Or that the export of iron, steel, copper and gold ...

With recent cuts to foreign aid, including programs like PEPFAR, thousands of Africans living with HIV face an uncertain ...

Foreign aid often is connected to wars overseas. The top five recipients of U.S. aid (including both USAID and non-USAID ...

Sam Nujoma, Namibia’s first democratically elected president and “founding father,” has died aged 95. President Nangolo Mbumba, announced the death of “our ...

Nujoma has been called the country's founding father after leading the fight for independence from South Africa.

Sam Nujoma, the fiery freedom fighter who led Namibia to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990 and served as its ...

Sam Nujoma, who led a three-decade-long fight for Namibia's independence from apartheid South Africa, has died aged 95, the ...

South Africa is responding to an executive order signed by U.S. President Donald Trump, saying the move to freeze American ...

Elon Musk is taking an influential Washington role but remains private about his family and life out of the spotlight.

At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family ...

The collapse of U.S.A.I.D. at the hands of President Trump and Elon Musk is already leaving gaping holes in vital health care ...