The director-general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Ghebreyesus, warns the COVID-19 pandemic is threatening decades of progress against infe...
Before he was laid to rest Sunday, the Angolan man known as Pai Grande, or Big Dad, drew a crowd of at least 1,000 people – including most, if not a...
In rural Malawi, families send girls as young as 12 years old for "initiation," a traditional, cultural practice that marks a child's entry into adult...
A politician from Ukunda, Kwale County and his friend were on Tuesday evening killed by unknown assailants. Omar Kombo Gude vied for the Ukunda MC...
Kuna ugonjwa ambao umeangaziwa mno na vyombo habari baada ya kuzua hofu eneo la pwani kufuatia maafa. Kufikia sasa wizara ya afya ikithibiditisha zaid...
President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Thursday evening announced a 22-member cabinet comprising two senior Zimbabwe Defence Forces members, who played a cri...
An American woman charged with subversion in Zimbabwe over allegedly insulting President Robert Mugabe on Twitter has been released from prison on bai...
Dakar, Senegal-From deadly droughts and destroyed crops to shrinking water sources, communities across sub-Saharan Africa are struggling to withstand ...
Goalkeeper Ian Otieno made a heroic return to AFC Leopards first team where he saved two spot kicks against Tanzania's Yanga SC as the Kenya...
Nigerian troops fought Boko Haram in the Lake Chad area on Saturday, killing 13 of the Islamic extremists and arresting 10 others, including 6 women b...
Over 120 cases of dengue fever were reported in Mombasa County by Sunday, May 8, 2017 – causing Mombasa County health officials to raise alarm over ...
Kikuyu Elders from Kikuyu Sub-County in Kiambu County on Friday spent the day cleansing a mugumo tree that was mistakenly pruned by the EGM Kinoo Prim...
Authorities in Thailand have confirmed that two cases of babies with microcephaly, or abnormally small heads, were caused by the Zika virus, the first...
Singapore said on Friday it had found 38 more people who had contracted Zika, raising to 189 the number infected with the mosquito-borne virus since a...
Global health officials are racing to better understand the Zika virus behind a major outbreak that began in Brazil last year and has spread to many c...
The World Health Organization and its partners shipped more than 6 million yellow fever vaccines to Angola in February to quash an emerging epidemic, ...
The Zika outbreak rampaging through Latin America will likely burn itself out in the next two to three years, based on the fact that people develop im...
The Red Cross launched a $1.4 million emergency appeal Wednesday to fight the spread of yellow fever in Angola, which faces its worst outbreak in 30 y...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Wednesday the Zika virus was spreading fast in Puerto Rico and urged the U.S. territ...
Battered by a presidential impeachment and the worst recession since the Great Depression, Brazil is getting a rare bit of relief as Rio de Janeiro pr...