A study conducted by the Pew Research Centre says two-thirds of South Africans agree that developing education should be a priority for the country.
Tastier kid-friendly tablets will help take the guess work out of treating Kenya’s tiniest TB patients.
The ANC must take responsibility for promising free, quality education for all – then keeping mum.
Kenya’s international success in track and field hides management inefficiencies and corruption.
Poor remuneration, an incoherent security system and a police force that is becoming politicised lie behind the recent killings.
A quasi-religious cult that is prepared to spill blood is said to be on the rise once again, with links to senior politicians and extortion rackets.
In rural Kenya, a group of strong-willed women is giving traumatised young runaways a second chance at life.
Moves should be made to consolidate Kenya’s fragile democracy ahead of the 2017 elections, as a climate of political fear rises in the country.
There are too few psychiatrists, so a foundation is using a Canadian model to rehabilitate people.
Western nations are turning their backs on refugees fleeing war and there are alarming signals that Kenya and South Africa may adopt this stance.
Two surveys paint a shocking picture of how East Africans are exposing themselves to the mounting risks of non-communicable diseases.
Smoking causes cancer, heart disease and diabetes. In Kenya, the ministry of health wants to curb smoking with an anti-tobacco law.
Women said they couldn’t afford to boil water and cook, so a local inventor rolled up his sleeves.
Joy as thirtysomething pachyderm makes three-week journey from Kenya.
Here are three tips to help keep your scientific presentations interesting, full of life and not sleep inducing.
Mathare slum in Kenya has been dependent on costly and possibly unsafe water from vendors – but innovative new water ATMs may end all that.
Google Africa recently paid for 35 journalists from various African countries, including South Africa, to explore Kenya using several apps.
A deep ancestral sense and passionate electronica characterise the Owiny Sigoma Band’s third album.
Obama’s trip to Kenya and Ethiopia featured an appearance at the 6th Global Entrepreneurship Summit.
They might quarrel among themselves, but nothing unites them like outside criticism.
Pushed a tough message on corruption, the civil war in South Sudan, controversial elections in Burundi and the fight against al-Shabaab.
"People are being lifted out of poverty, incomes are up, the middle class is growing and young people like you are harnessing technology."
Kenyan police have charged five men in connection with the attack by the armed group al-Shabab on a university in eastern Kenya.
The Kenyan pavilion at the Venice Biennale has became mired in controversy as five of the seven artists showing are Chinese, and one is Italian.
Kenya has frozen the bank accounts of 85 individuals and entities suspected to be financing terrorism in the country, including money transfer firms.
Scattered books and dark blood stains on the floor – the bodies have been collected but an abattoir-like stench permeates the Kenyan university.
Masked gunmen from Al Shabab stormed a Kenyan university in Garissa as students were sleeping, hurling grenades and shooting dead at least 147 people.
Five Cabinet secretaries among 175 top leaders were identified in an explosive anticorruption report, and suspended.
Despite efforts by the government to put in place technology such as irrigation, a large portion of farming is still dependent on rain.
Kenyan police are probing the final movements of Fidel Odinga, son of Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga, after he was found dead Sunday morning.
The International Criminal Court says there is not enough evidence to put the Kenyan president on trial for alleged crimes against humanity.
In a Kenyan town, close to the border with Somalia, about 36 workers have been killed in their tents and more are suspected to be missing.