Despite readily available vaccines, death rate of sickle-cell anemia in African children remains to be a growing concern, researchers said Thursday.

The Ugandan army has captured Mickman Opuk, who was close to LRA leader Joseph Kony. Opuk is said to have participated in the 1995 Atiak massacre of more than 200 civilians.

In a very risky experiment in conducted in Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Scientist opted to used mosquitoes as "artificial injections," delivering live malaria parasites through their bites.

In the newest HIV/AIDS study conducted by various researchers from Oxford University, the Population Council of Ghana and the Kenya Medical Research, they found how men who have sex with men have no safe access to relevant HIV/AIDS information.

According to a United Nations' (UN) estimate, one in every six people is affected by hunger. As a result of the global economic crisis, the world's hungry peaked at 1 billion.

Fighting has broken out between government forces and rebels in the Central African Republic. The Convention of Patriots for Justice and Peace (CPJP) rebels claim they have killed 24 soldiers.

Lake Victoria in Uganda: Some 250 feet deep, murky, dark, crocodile-infested -- for divers searching for the wreck of a large military cargo plane it's similar to looking for a black cat inside a coal shed at midnight - without a flashlight.

The United Nations said it is shutting down its Humanitarian Air Service in West Africa due to a serious lack of funding.

The International Court of Justice in The Hague holds hearings in April, requested by Belgium, about Senegal 's refusal to extradite convicted war criminal and self-exiled former leader Hissène Habré, who was sentenced in absentia in Chad...

Scientists from UK and Australia say that the brain chemical serotonin is the trigger that causes harmless desert locusts to transform and swarm into a crop destroying plague.