A planned U.S.-funded study of a hepatitis B vaccine drew widespread condemnation from researchers. Now the host country says it cannot proceed.

Around half of all school-age children in Sudan, or more than eight million, are no longer in education because of the ...

BBC Africa Eye joins an anti-trafficking police unit in Sierra Leone helping a man look for his missing children.

Africans everywhere should show interest in the outcome of the African Union’s elections for its human rights institutions.

STARK REALITIES"I want to be a teacher one day, but my parents say we need the money," 13 year old Abdullahi Fatima whispered. Every morning, the young girl trudges through the dusty streets of ...

Federal law sets the minimum age for most non-agricultural work at 16, but some jobs are available to 14- and 15-year-olds. Children under 14 can perform specific jobs like delivering newspapers, ...

Prince Harry has hit back at claims made by former magazine editor Tina Brown that he described his son Prince Archie as "my African child" to the late primatologist Jane Goodall. "The Duke of Sussex ...

Journalist Tina Brown made the claim during an interview with Katie Couric Dominic Lipinski - WPA Pool/Getty Prince Harry's spokesperson issued a statement denying journalist Tina Brown's claim that ...

Aprons, and the labour of Christmas; a Christmas meal underway. For countless women, the festive season is not a holiday and when the food is ready, the order of service is already decided. Who eats ...

WASHINGTON — More than 62,000 migrant children have been rescued by the Trump administration and saved from evil conditions, including sex trafficking and forced labor after they crossed the border ...

The Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA), which brought together lawyers, academics, development experts and human rights institutions on the sidelines of a session of the ...