Health Care

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 ...

NAIROBI— Two people have been confirmed dead after a five-storey building under construction collapsed in Ruaka, Kiambu County.The building located near Fortune Club area collapsed early Thursday morning.The two, a man aged 73 and his wife said to be i...

Health officials in Malawi are struggling to contain one of the worst cholera outbreaks in years. The outbreak has spread to nearly all of the country's 28 districts, killing more than 250 people and infecting more than 8,000."The cholera situation as ...