One in five COVID-19 patients develop mental illness within 90 days: study

By Reuters,

Many COVID-19 survivors are likely to be at greater risk of developing mental illness, psychiatrists said on Monday, after a large study found 20% of ...

coronavirus

Pfizer Inc announces 90% effective COVID-19 vaccine

By Reuters,

Pfizer Inc said on Monday its experimental COVID-19 vaccine was more than 90% effective, a major victory in the fight against a pandemic that has kill...

Former James Bond actor Sean Connery dies aged 90

By Reuters,

Scottish movie legend Sean Connery, who shot to international stardom as the suave, sexy and sophisticated British agent James Bond and went on to gra...

WHO denies challenging Kenya on declining COVID-19 cases

By Citizen Reporter,

The World Health Organization has denied challenging the Kenya Government in regards to the declining COVID-19 cases in the country. Also Read: Hea...

coronavirus , Uhuru kenyatta , world health organization

New Zealand records 100 days without domestic virus case

By Tonny Ndungu,

New Zealand marked 100 days without a domestic transmission of the coronavirus on Sunday, but warned against complacency as countries like Vietnam and...

coronavirus

U.S. issues high risk travel alert for Kenya over COVID-19

By Citizen Reporter,

The American Government has issued a travel alert for Kenya over the increasing number of COVID-19 cases in the country. Also Read: U.S. sets recor...

coronavirus , travel alert , US Embassy

U.S. records a coronavirus death every minute as total surpasses 150,000

By Reuters,

One person in the United States died about every minute from COVID-19 on Wednesday as the national death toll surpassed 150,000, the highest in the wo...

coronavirus

U.S. records 10,000 coronavirus deaths in 11 days as fatalities approach 150K

By Reuters,

U.S. deaths from the novel coronavirus were approaching 150,000 on Wednesday, the highest level in the world and rising by 10,000 in 11 days, accordin...

Coronavirus pandemic is getting worse- WHO warns

By VOA,

The World Health Organization says 60 percent of the world’s 10 million coronavirus cases since December came in the month of June – a sign that t...

coronavirus

Taiwan’s success in fighting coronavirus has infuriated China

By CNN,

While many governments struggled to contain the spread of coronavirus, Taiwan appeared to have it largely under control. In January, the self-rule...

coronavirus , COVID-19 , President Tsai Ing-wen , world health organization

DR Congo records third new Ebola case from same infection chain

By Reuters,

The Democratic Republic of Congo recorded a third new Ebola case on Monday, a seven-year-old girl who had started showing symptoms after visiting the ...

ebola

Congo records second Ebola death in days: WHO

By Reuters,

Democratic Republic of Congo recorded a second Ebola death in days following more than seven weeks without a new case, the World Health Organization s...

DRC , ebola

Global coronavirus cases surpass 1 million

By Reuters,

Global coronavirus cases surpassed 1 million on Thursday with more than 52,000 deaths as the pandemic further exploded in the United States and the de...

coronavirus , italy

Italy records 368 coronavirus deaths in 24 hours

By Reuters,

Italy on Sunday announced 368 new deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing the total death toll in the country to 1,809, according to Civil Protection De...

coronavirus , COVID-19 , italy

Third annual Halal trade exhibition set for Saturday

By Citizen Reporter,

The third Halal trade exhibition is set to be held in Nairobi this coming weekend, even as the Halal economy records a boom globally. Under the the...

Abubakar Bajaber , Halal trade exhibition , Munawer Ismail , Sarit Centre

Kenyan chef Maliha Mohammed breaks Guinness World Record by cooking for 75 hours straight

By Benjamin Muriuki,

Ms. Maliha Mohammed, a Mombasa-based Kenyan chef, has broken the Guinness World Record for the longest time spent cooking. Chef Maliha cooked for 7...

Maliha Mohammed

The wildcat gold miners who get rich sick in Ghana

By Reuters,

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 ...

Ghana , Gold Mining

An entire nation just got hacked

By CNN,

Asen Genov is pretty furious. His personal data was made public this week after records of more than 5 million Bulgarians got stolen by hackers from...

bulgaria , Clearswift , hacking

After years of losses, world’s forests ‘in emergency room’

By VOA,

The world lost 12 million hectares (30 million acres) of tropical tree cover last year, the equivalent of 30 soccer pitches a minute, researchers said...

Tropical tree

Exclusive: Gold worth billions smuggled out of Africa

By Reuters,

Billions of dollars’ worth of gold is being smuggled out of Africa every year through the United Arab Emirates in the Middle East – a gateway to m...