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Cancer treatment is becoming more personalised. By considering a patient’s unique genetic and molecular profile, along with their lifestyle and environmental factors, doctors can make more accurate treatment decisions. This approach, known as personalised or precision medicine, has been increasingly used in South Africa and has expanded to other African…

Old age may bring new aches and pains, stretched savings and a perspective on life only gained by living it

Allegations of witchcraft lead to beatings, banishment and even death

Big advances in lifespans in countries across Africa are coming with an unfortunate side effect: More cases of dementia

Africa is the world’s youngest continent — but the lives of its children are intertwined with the lives of its oldest

Comic-Con Africa has drawn tens of thousands of fans to Johannesburg

South Africa is commissioning a report on global wealth inequality in time to present at the Group of 20 summit it hosts in November

Africa has an enormous ocean area at its disposal. There are almost 20 million square kilometres of ocean, seas and inland water that could be developed into environmentally sustainable blue economies. The G20 group of 19 of the world’s largest economies and the African Union also view the blue economy…

Kenya’s success in the fight against deadly sleeping sickness marks a milestone in the African continent's battle to eradicate neglected tropical diseases.

Africa has everything it takes to become a "renewable superpower", UN head Antonio Guterres said Thursday, as he called for greater investment in green energy across the resource-rich continent.