Health Care

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...

An attack by suspected Islamic extremists on a camp outside Gao sheltering individuals who had fled violence in northern Mali has left 11 people dead, officials said Thursday.The assailants also destroyed the camp's food stocks and stole all the livest...

More than 40 million children missed getting vaccinated against measles last year, prompting a significant setback in global efforts to eradicate the highly contagious disease worldwide, the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Co...

Responding to the decision by Tanzania’s Director of Public Prosecution to drop charges of murder and conspiracy to murder against 24 members of the Maasai, including 10 leaders, Muleya Mwananyanda, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East an...

Somalia says its army, supported by international partners, have conducted an operation in the country’s lower Shabelle region that killed 49 al-Shabab militants.A statement issued by the Somali Information Ministry late Wednesday said the military ope...

DAR ES SALAAM— Divers were unable to launch a rescue operation after a passenger plane crashed in Tanzania’s Lake Victoria as they lacked oxygen in their cylinders, an official report has found.At least 19 people died after the plane plunged into the l...

TRIPOLI— Libyan Prime Minister Abdul-Hamed Dbeibah launched a national program to organize the treatment of cancer patients, including establishing a new government agency and a database, and localizing patients in the country.The new agency will be re...

PRETORIA— South Africa’s Social Development Minister, Lindiwe Zulu, says men are champions of change in preventing the spread of HIV, and addressing gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF) in communities.“One of the key tasks in preventing gender-bas...