Health Care

KANO (Nigeria)— At least 9 people were killed after a vehicle carrying 12 people plunged into a dam in north Nigeria’s Kano state on Saturday, according to an official on Sunday.Saminu Abdullahi, a spokesperson for the Kano State Fire Service, said in ...

GOMA (DR Congo)— Two days of flooding and landslides in eastern DR Congo have claimed more than 20 lives, officials and police said.At least 13 people were killed Friday at an illegal gold mine at Rubaya, in the North Kivu province territory of Masisi....

DAR ES SALAAM— Tanzania’s anti-narcotics watchdog said at least 11,974.4 kg of illicit drugs were seized in the country between January and October this year.Gerald Kusaya, the commissioner general for the Drug Control and Enforcement Authority (DCEA),...

LAGOS— At least seven gunmen were killed in a shootout with Nigerian police in the central state of Niger on Thursday, police said.“We received intelligent reports on a planned attack by the bandits on Kumbashi village and mobilized our personnel for p...

ACCRA, Nov 18 (NNN-Xinhua) — Ghana has covered at least 400,000 children in phase one of the pilot Malaria Vaccine Implementation Program (MVIP), said an official.Kwame Amponsa-Achiano, manager for the Expanded Program on Immunization at the Ghana Heal...

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 18 (NNN-Xinhua) — The United Nations Security Council on Thursday renewed Somalia sanctions until Nov 15, 2023.Adopting Resolution 2662 by a vote of 11-0 with four abstentions, the 15-member council also renewed the mandate of the S...

PRETORIA— South Africa recorded a 16.9% increase in the number of new cases detected in week 45 of 2022, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said.The latest data show that the country now has 4,034,234 laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 ...