Two medical students cycled for over 6,000 miles so they could give away more than a thousand free devices to medical workers in remote areas.
On the year of its 60th anniversary, Madagascar begins to plant 60 million trees in homage, as part of a campaign to make the nation green again
Residents of the ancient city of Timbuktu erupted in joy as French and Malian troops drove in on Monday after Islamist rebels fled to their last stronghold in the North. Residents were celebrating their new-found freedom after months of harsh Islamic laws against women, music, and cultural heritage.
Madonna is visiting the African state of Malawi where she is building an orphanage and child care centre and is involved in other initiatives geared toward helping children orphaned by AIDS.
The wall is only 15% complete and it's already brought a renewed source of food, water, income, and resources into arid rural areas.
Local fishermen struggled through the night to return dozens of stranded pilot whales back to the sea on Wednesday after the animals mysteriously beached themselves along a Senegal coastal village around 9:00 in the evening.
This 25-year-old man from Namibia has been using his art shop as a means of offering hope and confidence to some of the region's most at-risk people.
The plant can produce enough water for 35,000 people every day—which means that villagers will no longer have to drink dirty saltwater.
Valerie can now walk, run, and confidently return to school since a nonprofit team from Mercy Ships has fixed her extremely bowed legs.
Three Zambian officials made public their vow to halt mining permits in Lower Zambezi National Park due to the threats posed to the environment and water.
After beating cancer twice as a boy, climbing the world's tallest peaks with one lung required a lot of hope-now he gives it to others as he guides them upward.
Roxy Getter may only be 8-years-old, but she has already proven herself to be a formidable athlete in the making.
After 30 years of religious rule, Sudan's government has agreed to place a division between Islam and the state so the nation can be secular.
Chinese coal and gold mining operations in Zimbabwe's national parks have been summarily banned following legal push by environmentalists.
Since starting his labor of love in 2018, South Carolina's Roy Austin has managed to send dozens of book shipments to rural African schools.
he African continent is finally free of the wild poliovirus, 24 years after Nelson Mandela helped Rotary International launch its Kick Polio Out of Africa campaign.
After remaining unseen to scientists for 50 years, this tiny Somali sengi, or elephant shrew, has been rediscovered living in Djibouti.
Conservation scientists at UNSW have trialled painting eyes on cattle butts in Botswana to protect them from African lions.
Inventor Nnaemeka Ikegwuonu created ColdHubs, 100% solar-powered cold storage rooms for keeping produce and fish fresh in Nigerian markets.
After torrential rains, a record 140 baby elephants were born in Kenya's Amboseli Park, including rare elephant twins.
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