Africa

New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu will be on a visit to three African nations; Algeria, Mauritania and Malawi from October 13-19, the Ministry of External...

Abuja: Cholera claimed the lives of 350 people between January and September in Nigeria, according to data from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and...

Kinshasa: Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) said Saturday they had begun a vaccination campaign against mpox — a virus that causes...

Kigali: Rwandan Assistant Health Minister Yvan Butera on Thursday said doctors were seeking to break the spread of the Marburg virus disease by isolating...

Goma: At least 87 people were killed Thursday after a ferry sank on Lake Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to a report...

Kinshasa: Global efforts are continuing to fight the current mpox outbreak in Africa, where suspected cases have reached over 32,000 — with more than...

Khartoum: The Sudanese army launched artillery and airstrikes in the capital, Khartoum, on Thursday as it seeks to recapture areas taken by the rebel Rapid...

New York: “The ocean is overflowing,” warned UN secretary general Antonio Guterres at a recent visit to Tonga.  The archipelago in the South...

Freetown: Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, mayor of Freetown in Sierra Leone, has been described as a power woman. She has improved her city in many ways and made it a...