Health Apr 21 UN urges world to quickly scale up medicines, vaccines The U.N. resolution asked Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to work with the WHO and make recommendations to ensure that all people have equitable and timely access to testing, medical supplies, drugs and future vaccines, especially in developing countries.
Health Apr 16 Africa to roll out more than 1 million coronavirus tests Africa doesn't have as many virus cases as Europe and the U.S., but the trajectory looks alarmingly similar.
Health Apr 09 Africa must not be 'neglected' in virus fight, officials say African officials are objecting to the global jostling to obtain medical equipment to combat the coronavirus. The head of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls it "completely naive if countries think they can control COVID-19 in their…
Health Mar 20 Zimbabwe has 1st COVID-19 case while Africa cancels flights The health minister says the infected man lives in Victoria Falls, one of Africa's most visited tourist destinations.
World Mar 19 Africa sees rapid spread of pandemic, UN says More African countries have closed their borders as the coronavirus' local spread threatens to turn the continent of 1.3 billion people into an alarming new front for the pandemic.
World Mar 18 Africa should 'prepare for the worst' with virus, WHO says South Africa is the continent's new focus of concern as cases have nearly doubled to 116 from two days before.
World Jan 31 Climate activists from African nations make urgent appeal Africa has 15% of the world’s population, yet is likely to “shoulder nearly 50% of the estimated global climate change adaptation costs," the African Development Bank has said…
World Jan 26 'This is huge': Locust swarms in Africa are worst in decades The worst outbreak of desert locusts in Kenya in 70 years has seen hundreds of millions of the bugs swarm into the East African nation from Somalia and Ethiopia. Those two countries have not had an infestation like this in…
Health Jan 16 1st malaria vaccine tried out in babies in 3 African nations Malaria is one of the world's deadliest and most stubborn diseases. Now babies in three African nations are getting the first vaccine for malaria in an unusual pilot program.
World Jan 05 Extremists attack Kenya military base, 3 Americans killed Al-Shabab extremists overran a key military base used by U.S. counterterror forces in Kenya before dawn Sunday, killing three American Department of Defense personnel and destroying several U.S. aircraft and vehicles before they were repelled, U.S. and Kenyan authorities said.