Health Care

MOGADISHU— Somali security forces have ended a siege by Al-Shabaab militants who attacked a hotel in Mogadishu overnight, a police spokesman said.At least eight civilians, six soldiers and one militant were killed in the siege, according to police. Aut...

GENEVA— Following a series of consultations with global experts, WHO will begin using a new preferred term “mpox” as a synonym for monkeypox. Both names will be used simultaneously for one year while “monkeypox” is phased out.When the outbreak of monke...

Inequalities will prevent the world from meeting agreed global targets on AIDS, but a “feminist route map” can get countries back on track, the UN agency leading the fight against the disease said in a report published on Tuesday.The study shows how ge...

At the #Atoms4Climate pavilion at COP27, scientific experts shared diverse perspectives on topics including irrigation, plant breeding and gender mainstreaming as they met to discuss the disproportionate impact of climate change in Africa, as well as p...

N’DJAMENA – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, warned today of an imminent cut to food assistance to crisis-affected refugees in Chad unless urgent funding to bridge major funding shortfalls is received immi...

The North West Department of Health led by MEC Madoda Sambatha will commemorate the “16 Days of Activism for No Violence against Women and Children Campaign” in the Dr Kenneth Kaunda District under the theme: “Socio-economic Rights and Empowerment to b...

KAMPALA— Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has extended a quarantine placed on two districts that are the epicenter of the country’s Ebola outbreak by 21 days, adding that his government’s response to the disease was succeeding.Movement in and out of ...

KINSHASA, Nov 28 (NNN-ALLAFRICA) — At least 40 Burundian rebels have been killed in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo in a joint operation with the Burundian military, the Congolese army said.The two armies “carried out a high-intensity offe...