The World Bank study shows that South African cities are unusually fragmented, with dense, poor neighborhoods located far ...

Background We investigated the prevalence, temporal trends and associated factors of overweight and obesity among adults in ...

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On a busy weekday, the coastal strip of Bountiya in Nouadhibou, Mauritania’s second-biggest city, is eerily quiet. This was ...

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Nigeria currently has a population of 237 million people and over 133 million Nigerians are living in this kind of poverty.

You find what space you can in Burundi, where 14m people squeeze into an area not much bigger than Wales or Massachusetts.

A study analyzing DNA samples from African forest elephant dung found that the species' population is larger than previously believed. According to AFP, via Phys.org, the new status report showed that ...