Victoria Gray spent 34 years battling the debilitating pain of sickle cell disease. Then she volunteered to be the world's first "prototype" for a CRISPR therapy, based on technology invented at UC ...

Gaise Baba, a fast-rising gospel artist, has stunned the Nigerian music scene after his hit track 'No Turning Back II' emerged as the country's most-viewed music video on YouTube in 2025 - surpassing ...

Music has this wild way of starting in the most unexpected places. What begins in a dimly lit basement or a cramped warehouse ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, December 11, 2025 (ENS) – Sub-Saharan Africa has lost 24 percent of its biodiversity since pre-industrial times, and large mammals have declined the most, finds new ...

Researchers from the School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences (APES) have contributed significantly to a major African-led study revealing that sub-Saharan Africa has already lost 24% of its ...

Almost every country in the world has seen fertility rates decline over the past few decades, but one region's birth rates are still so high that it is expected to provide more than half the global ...

Water systems in Sub-Saharan Africa are increasingly in crisis. Growing populations and expanding economies are relentlessly driving rising demands. Like the Red Queen in Through the Looking Glass, ...

An international team of researchers has made a key discovery: many children and young adults in Sub-Saharan Africa diagnosed with type 1 diabetes (T1D) may have a different form of the disease—one ...

A satellite image from Monday, July 21 shows the Saharan Air Layer over the Atlantic Ocean. Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies / University of Wisconsin-Madison A tropical wave ...

A hard-won recovery in sub-Saharan Africa has been overtaken by recent events. The sudden shift in the global outlook has clouded the region’s short-term prospects and significantly complicated policy ...

Between 2010 and 2020, the population of sub-Saharan Africa grew by 31% to 1.1 billion. As of 2020, most people living in the region are Christians (62%), while Muslims make up about a third of the ...