Health Care

On the sidelines of his participation in the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Sharm El-Sheikh, H.E. Dr. Walid Fayad, the Minister of Energy and Water, visited and had a tour at the Schneider Electric Sustainability Hub. During the to...

Kinshasa – More than 14 African countries have reported cholera cases since January 2022. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, this acute diarrhoeal disease is endemic in several provinces. Since the beginning of the year, more than 12 300 suspecte...

This Weekly Bulletin focuses on public health emergencies occurring in the WHO African region. This week’s articles cover:• Ebola Disease caused by Sudan virus in Uganda• Cholera in KenyaFor each of these events, a brief description, followed by public...

Zambian authorities said they will travel next week to Russia to retrieve the body of a 23-year-old Zambian who died while fighting for the Russian military in Ukraine. His family and the Zambian government are still waiting for answers from Moscow on ...

Police in Nigeria's oil rich Niger Delta say gunmen dressed in military uniforms killed three police escorts and abducted an oil executive.Rivers State police spokesperson, Grace Iringe-Koko told VOA Friday that the police command has launched investig...

Ghana's finance minister says the country is at high risk of debt distress as the currency, the cedi, has depreciated against the U.S. dollar, increasing its foreign debt by $6 billion this year alone. Ghana on Thursday announced more spending cuts, in...

Uganda closed schools nationwide on Friday to curb the spread of Ebola, despite the health minister insisting to AFP that new cases had declined.The directive to close schools two weeks before the end of term was announced earlier this month following ...

JOHANNESBURG, Nov 24 (NNN-SANEWS) — South African-based bio-pharmaceutical company, Biovac, has concluded a ground-breaking licensing and technology transfer agreement to manufacture an oral cholera vaccine (OCV).According to a statement released on We...