An estimated 350,000 African artefacts, from human remains and photographs to natural history specimens and manuscripts, have been found in a university’s collections. Dr Eva Namusoke spent 15 months liaising with University of Cambridge librarians, curators and archivists, as well as delving into their stores, to uncover the items. It “is fairly common” for large […]

Nigeria, which has more malaria deaths than any other country in the world, has begun rolling out a vaccine against the disease for the first time. The West African nation accounts for almost a third of those who die from malaria each year. The vaccine being introduced – called R21/Matrix-M – is the second to […]

An Islamic school teacher, Masud Abdulrasheed, is struggling to come to terms with the killing of his seven-year-old daughter in drone strikes by Nigeria’s military during a religious festival in their large but sparsely populated village exactly a year ago. The military said the bombing was caused by “a failure of intelligence”, leading the army […]

US President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to impose 100% tariffs on a bloc of nine nations if they were to create a rival currency to the US dollar. “The idea that the BRICS Countries are trying to move away from the Dollar while we stand by and watch is OVER,” Trump wrote on social media […]

Voting began on Wednesday but in parts of the country continued up until Saturday, following a lack of ballot papers in some places as well as malfunctioning technical equipment. Is Namibia going to elect its first female leader? Namibia is a geographically vast nation with about three million people, around half of whom are registered […]