
Africa Declared Free Of Wild Polio After Enduring Vaccination Effort
The CDC's director praised the continent-wide vaccination effort inspired by late South African leader Nelson Mandela.
The CDC's director praised the continent-wide vaccination effort inspired by late South African leader Nelson Mandela.
President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta said he is stepping down because he does "not wish blood to be shed."
Officials say it started with a car bomb blowing open the security gates at Mogadishu's Elite Hotel.
The ship struck a reef on July 25, releasing oil into the Indian Ocean that damaged the environment.
A leaking Japanese tanker in the Indian Ocean is threatening thousands of species in a sea of pollution.
The International Monetary Fund's emergency loan will help support frontline health services and create jobs in South Africa.
South Africa and India are seeing spikes in coronavirus cases. Poorer countries are facing a lack of equipment and space to care for patients.
Global conversations around racism have brought new intensity to the nation's grappling with its brutal legacy in central Africa.
Clinical trials are underway in South Africa in the first comprehensive test of a vaccine being developed by Oxford University.
Health officials worry about potential mass infection in refugee campings housing 860,000 Rohingyas driven out of Myanmar.
The U.S. is planning to send 8,000 ventilators abroad by July.
Ten African nations have no ventilators at all.
To curb the spread of the coronavirus in Africa, health officials are setting up new labs, some of them in at-risk communities.
The report says MCAS design, an automated safety feature designed to prevent the plane from stalling, "made it vulnerable to undesired activation."
Local media report Abdalla Hamdok was traveling to his office in the country's capital when his motorcade was hit with explosives and gunfire.
Both of the attackers and one police officer are reported dead. Five others are wounded.
U.S. Africa Command said the man "was in charge of planning and directing terrorist operations on the Kenya border region."
Sudan denies it played a role in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen. But families of the dead say it provided support for the Al-Qaeda attack.
Heads of state agreed to look into the impact Nigeria's land border closure has had on its neighbors.
ICC prosecutors want him to face charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, including for the 2003 Darfur conflict.
The country already struggles with food security, and the U.N. says if the swarms grow that Somalia could face a food crisis it "can't afford."
The World Health Organization says it's the world's largest outbreak of the infectious disease.
Army Specialist Henry J. Mayfield Jr. was 23 years old and hailed from Evergreen Park, Illinois.
U.S. Africa Command said one U.S. service member and two Defense Department contractors were killed in the attack.
The country's president blamed terrorist group al-Shabab.
Bashir will be transferred to a reform facility if he isn't sentenced to death in another trial.
The injectable vaccine has been shown to be effective in protecting people from the Ebola Zaire virus.
The Nobel Committee awarded Abiy the Prize "in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighboring Eritrea."
The attacks come as Al-Shabab faces increasing pressure in the region following the loss of key areas to U.S. and Somali forces.
The World Health Organization says it's received unofficial reports of possible Ebola cases in Tanzania, but the country hasn't reported any.