The global fertility rate was 2.2 births per woman last year, down from five in the 1960s and 3.3 in 1990, according to the ...

Penquin, the Johannesburg-based brand and communication marketing agency, has been ranked the number two Creative Agency in ...

A new network aims to improve malaria prevention among school-aged children in sub-Saharan Africa.

An international team of researchers has made a key discovery: many children and young adults in Sub-Saharan Africa diagnosed with type 1 diabetes (T1D) may have a different form of the disease—one ...

The sweetpotato feeds millions worldwide, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, where its natural resilience to climate extremes ...

Sub-Saharan Africa is a large, diverse region, encompassing 37 countries ranging from South Africa and Nigeria, to Angola, Cameroon, and Mali. It's a region where mobile technology is going ...

Sub-Saharan Africa's economic growth is expected to slow this year, dragged down by slumps in heavyweights South Africa, Nigeria and Angola, the World Bank said on Wednesday.

Sub-Saharan Africa's ratio of debt interest payments to government revenues of about 10.5% has more than doubled in the last decade and is about three times that of developed countries, according ...

Sub-Saharan Africa is the ‘new epicenter’ of Islamic extremism, U.N. says Shoes of students kidnapped by the Boko Haram extremist group are strewn on the floor of a schoolroom in Kankara, Nigeria.

Most of the increase in sub-Saharan Africa has come from a wave of internally displaced persons – those forced from their communities due to conflict and who remain within their home country. In ...

Sub-Saharan Africa, which includes 50 countries and territories, has about 241 million Muslims, which is about 15% of the world Muslim population. Nigeria has the largest Muslim population in ...