Kate Hodal

Mali joins the ranks of countries such as Sierra Leone, South Africa & Burkina Faso to provide free healthcare to moms and tots.

In times of famine, epidemic and hardship over the past 250 years, women have consistently outlived men, find researchers

Patients too poor to settle medical debts are chained to drain pipes, starved and abused in health centres across parts of Africa.

With crime rates high and no efficient emergency number available, an app developed by a student aims to make people in Kenya feel safer.

Women wanting to join the county’s security force have to undergo a traumatic and painful "virginity" test guised as being a test for STDs.

In one of many firsts, the film-crazy nation of Brunei will feature in a full-length movie.

Anwar Ibrahim is fighting his last fight: to be Malaysia’s next prime minister, a battle for which he has been preparing for a very long time.

Burma’s newly elected MP Aung San Suu Kyi has accepted invitations to visit Norway and the UK — her first overseas trips in 24 years.

Thailand has become the first government to publicly endorse Twitter’s controversial decision to censor messages in certain countries.

Questions have been raised over Thai prime minister’s appointment of Nalinee Taveesin to Cabinet, who counts Zimbabwe’s president as a friend.

Thai airline becomes the first in the country to employ transgender people.