The eastern Sudanese city of El Fasher has been under siege for almost a year. Fighters in the country’s civil war have ...

Deaths from “flesh-eating” bacteria are on the rise across the southeastern coasts of the U.S. At least five people in ...

“The risk of widespread outbreaks is real, especially as climate shocks intensify,” said Dr Alex Gasasira, Acting WHO Country ...

I congratulate Professor Simon Ortuanya on his emergence as the Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN).

It was July 4th, 1944 in London and the end of the war in Europe was finally in sight. The previous month, the Allies had liberated Rome and landed in ...

Particularly hard hit is El Fasher, where hunger is growing, with the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs ...

Working in the heart of an outbreak, Red Cross volunteers bring lifesaving information, sanitation supplies, elbow grease and courage to the task of preventing further illness and death. 'Every boat ...

The World Health Organization on Thursday said nearly 100,000 cholera cases had been reported in Sudan since July last year, ...

Though never ordained, Blessed Edmund Bojanowski devoted his life to the poor, the sick, and the young — founding four ...

FLOODS, a worsening cholera outbreak and surging armed violence have left more than 130 people dead in Central and West Africa in recent days. Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Guinea and ...

One day in July, a group of young people were planting trees in a high-density suburb in Zimbabwe's Harare. The project, run ...

In markets, streets, rivers, and gutters across Nigeria, single-use plastics are everywhere, fluttering in the wind, clogging ...