Traditional chiefs, religious leaders, surreal bureaucrats, the police... no aspect of Burkinabe society escapes mockery in Duga , a comedy screened Wednesday at Africa 39;s top film festival. The film -- unofficially titled The Scavengers in English -- uses a corpse that nobody wants to bury as the launch pad for a satire on hat ...

For years, insecticide-soaked mosquito nets have helped dramatically lower malaria infections, but insecticide resistance has driven a search for alternatives and a new study may have uncovered one option. The weapon is a familiar one: an anti-malarial drug already used by humans to prevent them contracting the disease, and researchers now ...

In Silence is My Mother Tongue , the latest novel by Eritrean-Ethiopian writer Sulaiman Addonia, teen Saba and her brother Hagos arrive at a refugee camp in Sudan, where she is determined to continue her studies, while he is content to take care of her. The Eritrean refugees bring their conservative views to the camp, especially when it co ...

While Mauritius celebrated the recommendations of the International Court of Justice over the fate of the Chagos archipelago, Britain claimed that it was a misuse of power to seek the opinion of the ICJ. The battle is not over yet and it is now up to the UN General Assembly to offer direction. The Prime minister of Mauritius described Febru ...