Trials have started in Tanzania of 12 people accused of murdering albino people and selling their body parts for use in witchcraft....

A handwritten ledger at the hospital tells a grim story. For the month of January, 17 of the 31 minor surgical procedures here were done to repair the...

Across Tanzania, 1.1 million children have been affected by HIV, with many losing one or both parents to the virus.

Fasil Amdetsion, an attorney from Ethiopia, thinks the Nile basin will be the most likely site of a future "water war" because the Nile embodies "all the challenges that transnational management of fresh water could possibly present."

It is possible to disarm all nuclear weaponry by 2020. It is do-able. For the sake of our orphans, for the sake of your own families' children, let us commit ourselves to believing this.

A social economic development project is much different than a charity. These projects represent grassroots undertakings that have local support and are self-sustained.

We will make progress on HIV/AIDS, education, nutrition, health care, on immunization, even, I believe, on the environment, if we reduce the number of mothers dying needlessly in childbirth.

"POOR countries are innocent," says Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Nigerian managing director of the World Bank. They did not contribute one jot to the glob...

Tanzania is launching a nationwide exercise urging the public to identify those behind dozens of murders of people with albinism....

ARUSHA, Tanzania — A U.N. tribunal convicted a former Rwandan military chaplain Friday of attempted rape and genocide for crimes that included k...

Do what you can today to water a good seed and be a driving force to make life better for one person or an entire village, right next door or on the other side of the world.

PRETORIA, South Africa — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened a nine-day African tour telling United Nations personnel Tuesday that the wor...

This was the most accessible inauguration in history. Because of digital media and global interest, more citizens of the world had digital box seats to watch, hear, and feel the democratic experience.

In the past week, two Tanzanian albinos have been murdered for their limbs. Elizabeth Hussein, 13, was attacked by men with machetes and Ezekiel Jo...

At the News Xchange international broadcast conference... I talked with Salim Amin, a Kenyan and the founder of A24 Media, Africa's first online agency for video and photography.