At least 23 people have died of cholera in two weeks in eastern Ethiopia, which has been hit by heavy flooding, the NGO Save the Children said on Thursday, fearing that the epidemic could get "out of control" in the region.
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Weighing up to 500 grams, growing to a length of ten centimetres and highly prized in the Ivory Coast, giant snails have regrettably fallen victim to deforestation and pesticides, and are disappearing from the rainforest.
An East African court on Wednesday dismissed a legal action against a megaproject by French oil company TotalEnergies in Uganda and Tanzania, the target of fierce criticism from environmental and human rights groups.
A batch of 331,200 doses of RTS,S - the first malaria vaccine recommended by the UN's World Health Organization arrived at Cameroon's Yaoundé Nsimalen International Airport on Tuesday 21 November 2023.
Mdumiseni Zuma is the first person to be convicted of "inciting unrest", as part of the prosecution launched after the country's worst wave of violence and looting since the end of apartheid, South African prosecutor's spokeswoman Natasha Ramkisson-Kar...
A senior Hamas official said on Wednesday that the Palestinian Islamist movement was ready to release all Israeli soldiers it was holding in exchange for all Palestinians imprisoned in Israel.
Astronomers have unearthed a unique solar system, wherein six planets orbit a bright neighboring star in flawless synchronized motion, resembling a majestic cosmic orchestra.
In a speech to lawmakers in the capital Abuja, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu said attracting investment and addressing Nigeria's cost-of-living crisis were also cornerstones of his 27.5-trillion naira ($34.84 billion) budget proposal for 2024.
FAO’s emergency and development projects in the country have supported local communities to build resilient agriculture-based livelihoods.
The delivery "signals that scale-up of vaccination against malaria across the highest-risk areas on the African continent will begin shortly," the WHO, the UN children's agency UNICEF and the Gavi vaccine alliance said in a joint statement.
