Africa

Kigali: Rwandan Assistant Health Minister Yvan Butera on Thursday said doctors were seeking to break the spread of the Marburg virus disease by isolating...

Goma: At least 87 people were killed Thursday after a ferry sank on Lake Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to a report...

Kinshasa: Global efforts are continuing to fight the current mpox outbreak in Africa, where suspected cases have reached over 32,000 — with more than...

Khartoum: The Sudanese army launched artillery and airstrikes in the capital, Khartoum, on Thursday as it seeks to recapture areas taken by the rebel Rapid...

New York: “The ocean is overflowing,” warned UN secretary general Antonio Guterres at a recent visit to Tonga.  The archipelago in the South...

Freetown: Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, mayor of Freetown in Sierra Leone, has been described as a power woman. She has improved her city in many ways and made it a...

Khartoum: With their Kalashnikovs at the ready and their fingers forming a "V" for victory, soldiers from Sudanese militia forces pose in front of the...

Maiduguri: The flooding that has swept through parts of West and Central Africa this year has claimed hundreds of lives, devastated infrastructure and...

Geneva: The global vaccine group Gavi has ordered 500,000 Mpox vaccine doses from the German-Danish company Bavarian Nordic.The UN Children's Fund is to...

Windhoek: Google the words "cull," "hunting" and "Namibia" and hundreds of search results will appear going back years. They advertise opportunities to...