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Over 300 Nigerian schoolboys who were kidnapped by gunmen rescued
By Reuters,
943, December 18, 2020 (EAT)
Security forces rescued nearly 350 Nigerian schoolboys who had been kidnapped and taken into a vast forest, Katsina state Governor said. It was not...
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Small children carry high amounts of coronavirus; safely opening colleges will be a challenge
By Reuters,
1334, August 1, 2020 (EAT)
Children younger than five carried major amounts of coronavirus in their upper respiratory tract, a small study published on Thursday showed, raising ...
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COVID-19 in South Africa: How inequality, poverty undermined country’s response
By Reuters,
1508, July 31, 2020 (EAT)
When coronavirus patients started arriving at South Africa’s government-run Thelle Mogoerane Hospital, workers scrambled to set up isolation wards t...
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Can prostitution, the world’s oldest profession, survive the age of social distancing?
By CNN,
1242, May 26, 2020 (EAT)
Don't kiss. Tell clients to wash their hands before they touch you. Wear a mask. Avoid face-to-face positions. And even: Put on a nurse costume and pu...
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TikTok is winning over millennials and Instagram stars as its popularity explodes
By CNN,
1253, May 5, 2020 (EAT)
Alana Tsui hadn't really thought about joining TikTok before the coronavirus pandemic. The artist and influencer already had a healthy following...
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The virus hunters who search bat caves to predict the next pandemic
By CNN,
1015, April 27, 2020 (EAT)
Before entering the cave, the small team of scientists pull on hazmat suits, face masks and thick gloves to cover every inch of their skin. Contact wi...
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Nearly 1 billion people confined to homes globally due to coronavirus
By Tonny Ndungu,
1912, March 21, 2020 (EAT)
Close to one billion people worldwide were confined to their homes on Saturday as the global coronavirus death toll shot past 11,000 and U.S. states r...
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Beijing is promoting traditional medicine as a ‘Chinese solution’ to coronavirus
By CNN,
1110, March 15, 2020 (EAT)
Xiong Qingzhen, a drone engineer in the central Chinese metropolis of Wuhan, spent more than two weeks in a makeshift hospital in February receiving t...
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The wildcat gold miners who get rich sick in Ghana
By Reuters,
1403, July 25, 2019 (EAT)
A few years after coming as a teenager to this town in Ghana to prospect for gold, Yaw Ngoha had made enough cash to marry his sweetheart and build a ...
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More than 60 killed, hundreds of thousands displaced by flooding in Bangladesh
By Reuters,
1140, July 24, 2019 (EAT)
Severe flooding has killed at least 61 people, displaced nearly 800,000 and inundated thousands of homes across a third of Bangladesh, government offi...
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Progress toward ending HIV/AIDS epidemic is receding
By Wambui Kihara,
2111, July 22, 2019 (EAT)
A report issued on the eve of an international AIDS conference in Mexico finds progress in combating the global HIV/AIDS epidemic is receding. The j...
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South African soldiers deployed to Cape Town to help fight gangs
By Reuters,
1418, July 19, 2019 (EAT)
South African soldiers were deployed to gang-ridden Cape Town suburbs on Thursday to help quell escalating violence that has killed hundreds this year...
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Heavy rain, flooding in China force evacuation of nearly 80,000
By VOA,
1851, July 11, 2019 (EAT)
The heaviest average rainfall to lash a swathe of southern and eastern China in more than half a century brought torrential rain and floods, destroyin...
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Four Cameroon police killed by suspected separatist bomb -govt
By Reuters,
1933, June 16, 2019 (EAT)
Cameroon’s government said on Sunday that separatists in its restive English-speaking region had detonated an improvised explosive device that kille...
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149 African migrants evacuated from Libya to Italy
By VOA,
1955, June 3, 2019 (EAT)
The U.N. refugee agency says it has evacuated 149 refugees and asylum-seekers from the strife-torn Libyan capital of Tripoli and brought them to safet...
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30 Dead, 200 missing after boat sinks on DRC Lake
By VOA,
923, May 27, 2019 (EAT)
Authorities in western Congo say at least 30 people are dead and another 200 are missing after a boat sank on a lake. Simon Mboo Wemba, the mayor o...
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U.S. pressures Baghdad over Iran-backed militias
By Reuters,
1748, May 15, 2019 (EAT)
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s surprise visit to Baghdad this month came after U.S. intelligence showed Iran-backed Shi’ite militias positioning...
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Two Reuters reporters freed in Myanmar after more than 500 days in jail
By Reuters,
2125, May 7, 2019 (EAT)
Two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar after they were convicted of breaking the Official Secrets Act walked free from prison on Tuesday after more...
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Two Reuters reporters jailed in Myanmar freed after over 500 days
By Reuters,
1101, May 7, 2019 (EAT)
Two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar after they were convicted of breaking the Official Secrets Act walked free from a prison on the outskirts of...
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China’s Xi says Belt and Road must be green, sustainable
By Reuters,
1332, April 27, 2019 (EAT)
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) must be green and sustainable, President Xi Jinping said in opening a summit on his grand strategy, adding th...
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