Africa

Vaccine against malaria: the disease kills around half a million people every year, almost all in sub-Saharan Africa

The WHO regional director for Africa denounces: "Additional doses to those already vaccinated are political decisions that take precedence over scientific knowledge"

Typhus outbreak in DR Congo: nestled in the hills at the confluence of three rivers, the health zone of Popokabaka, nearly 400 kilometres southeast of Kinshasa, the capital of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has been the centre of an…

In Botswana, drones are providing access to essential and emergency medical supplies to even the most remote and hard-to-reach areas

Covid, the UN on hospitals in Africa. Where only 2.8% of the population is vaccinated, eight countries on the continent are experiencing a surge in deaths

Liberia / The Head of State, former AC Milan striker: "I am proud and happy, my dream has been realised in record time"

Migrants adrift off the Canary Islands, Alarm Phone reports: 46 migrants who left the coast of Western Sahara for the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean spent almost two weeks at sea without food or water

The WHO reports a first case of Marburg virus in Guinea, just two months after the Ebola crisis was declared over

Abia Central, the area of Nigeria where the tricycle ambulances have been adopted, is one of 36 states that make up the African country

The UAE on Saturday sent an aid plane carrying nine tonnes of medical supplies, testing kits, ventilators and Covid-19 vaccines to Rwanda