Freedom was on the march downward in 2008, especially in sub-Saharan Africa and the former Soviet Union, a private democracy watchdog organization reports. ...more

January 12, 2009

Nelson Mdlovu strides out of the small clinic with a spring in his step and a smile on his lips just minutes after being circumcised. ...more

November 3, 2008

Tampa Preparatory students are speaking their minds and getting state recognition for doing so. ...more

October 1, 2008

which have done as much to hurt development as colonialism ever did. That's why after four decades and billions of dollars in aid from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the nations of sub-Saharan Africa remain among the world's poorest. ...more

July 5, 2008

In a country teeming with resources the world covets, President Bush sought on Wednesday to soothe African fears about U.S. interests on the continent. He said America is not aiming to make Africa into a base for greater military power or a proxy battleground with China. ...more

February 21, 2008

A newborn in Sierra Leone has the lowest chance in the world of surviving until age 5, and the prospects are almost as bad for children in Angola and Afghanistan, according to a U.N. report released Tuesday. ...more

January 23, 2008

They call it a demon of the jungle. But it soon may leave the cover of darkness and hunt its prey elsewhere, out from under the dense forests of sub-Saharan Africa. ...more

January 6, 2008

The United Nations' top AIDS scientists plan to acknowledge this week that they have long overestimated both the size and the course of the epidemic, which they now think has been ebbing for nearly a decade, according to U.N. documents prepared for the announcement. ...more

November 20, 2007

The world's poorest people are not seeing the benefits of a global poverty rate decline driven by Asia's economic growth over the past two decades, a report released today said. ...more

November 7, 2007

An experimental malaria vaccine protected 65 percent of Mozambiquan infants who received a full course of injections, paving the way for a large clinical trial of what could be the first vaccine against the deadly disease, researchers reported Wednesday. ...more

October 18, 2007