Johannesburg, South Africa — A tiny village in South Africa has been overrun by thousands of people searching for diamonds. The crowds poured in after a man reported finding a crystal-like stone in a ...

Malaria has become more common in African villages with irrigated rice fields in the last 20 years, highlighting the need for improved cultivation methods to keep mosquito numbers low, a study ...

(AP) In the village of Nabari on northern Ghana’s dry savanna, 80-year-old Wudana Dokurugu lives with other widows in a clump of mud huts. They farm maize and soybeans in impoverished soil, and say ...

ZOLA Electric, a Tesla-backed company providing energy to remote African villages through solar and batteries, has announced the deployment of a new microgrid system that is powering 1,000 homes, ...

Amid a dawn chorus of crickets, mosquitoes and the "jee-ow!" of the great blue turaco, the forest canopy began to shake as a screech rang out. Peering up through his binoculars, Nioka Monsiu spotted a ...

CENTRE CO., Pa. (WJAC) — Staff at an area hospital are taking their care across the ocean. 6 News spoke with those at Mount Nittany Medical Center who are once again looking to help villages in Africa ...

Our search for unusual stories led us to some of the world’s most unusual settlements. Enter floating villages. These floating villages offer a rare glimpse into communities that have adapted to life ...

A nine-man committee set up by Kogi Governor Yahaya Bello to develop the first holiday village in Africa has come up with an 8 point agenda on how to actualise its mandate. The village is to be cited ...

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In the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, Michael Nganga is watching a Chinese Kung Fu movie. His small home in Limuru village doesn’t have running water and its walls are made from corrugated metal. Yet ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Anne Field covers impact entrepreneurship and impact investing. A while ago, the folks at Village Capital, which runs global ...