A new global report warns that inequality is increasing the world’s vulnerability to pandemics, making them more deadly, more ...

When Phineas jumped out of a window to escape the calamitous fire that blazed a Johannesburg apartment building on 31 August, he was unaware that the owner of the building was the government of South ...

At least 16 people, including three children, were killed by a leak of a toxic nitrate gas being used by illegal miners to process gold in an informal settlement in South Africa, police and local ...

In Africa, artificial intelligence and data is being used to identify pollutants and clean up the air. On the outskirts of Cairo, the pyramids shimmer in a brownish haze. In gridlocked Nairobi, ...

Gas disaster: Police standing near a body covered with a blanket in the Angelo slum - Copyright GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP Emma McIntyre Gas disaster: Police ...

Dana Rodrigues, who grew up in Johannesburg, said she’s flabbergasted by the state of affairs every time she comes back for a visit from her new home in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where she works as a ...