The South African Police Service are on the hunt for a teenager who gave birth in a Mangaung, Free State, hospital and ...

Paramedics in Durban attended to two gruesome cases within the space of 24 hours, as a newborn was found dead in a bush ...

Are you looking for a beautiful African name for your baby? There's a huge range of African names to choose from – after all, there are 54 different African countries, each of them with its own ...

Baby-naming trends vary greatly across Africa ... Throughout parts of Central and Southern Africa, babies are often named ...

The body of a newborn baby boy was discovered on the side of the road in Waterloo, north of Durban, on Thursday morning. Private security company Reaction Unit South Africa (Rusa) said they ...

Last month, BBC Africa Eye exposed a thriving black-market trade in babies in the Kenyan capital ... but he died three days after their baby daughter was born. Adama's loneliness deepened.

Gum’s the word — and a new study links chewing the right kind to a decrease in preterm birth and delivery of low-birthweight babies in an impoverished African country. “It surprised us all ...

Some species, like the South African galago, hang out in acacia ... the animal’s distinct calls—which sound like a crying newborn baby, the likely source of their name—to differentiate ...