A new strain of the virus that causes AIDS has been discovered in a woman from the African nation of Cameroon. It differs from the three known strains of human immunodeficiency virus and appears to be closely related to a form of simian virus recently...

Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has told the BBC the “acrimony is over” between him and President Robert Mugabe. He made the remarks ahead of a tour of Europe and the US to garner support for his country’s four-month-old...

A post-mortem on the toddler showed that she sustained a fractured neck and bruises as a result of the alleged rape.

Following the worst wheat harvest since the independence war, bread has run out and sugar supplies are set to follow. USAid, the American government humanitarian agency, is warning that the country could run out of the maize, the staple food, by next...

Modern humans are known to have left Africa in a wave of migration around 50,000 years ago, but another, smaller group — possibly a different subspecies — left the continent 50,000 years earlier, suggests a new study. While all humans today...