Although well-intended, WHO’s over-cautious and convoluted regulatory process stalled vaccine delivery for months before an approval was granted last month. Hundreds of lives were lost in the meantime ...

Marburg virus had killed 12 people in Rwanda as of early October, touching off the nation’s first confirmed outbreak of the highly virulent disease that can have a fatality rate of close to 90%. From ...

By Sonia Rolley PARIS (Reuters) -Prison conditions in the Democratic Republic of Congo have deteriorated, with cases of torture and sexual violence being reported in detention centres run by the ...

Coach Hugo Broos wants the real Bafana Bafana to please stand up when they face Congo in back-to-back African Cup of Nations ...

Mine expansions in Congo and Chile are driving global copper stocks up, but prices will likely remain elevated, aided by increasing China demand, BMI said, projecting an average price of $9,600 a ton ...

The WHO estimates the case fatality rate to be between 24 and 88%. On average, about half of all those who contract the ...

Conservation authorities in the Republic of Congo have launched a plan to invest in the protection of “high-integrity forests ...

Ipswich Town right-back Axel Tuanzebe is facing at least a month out after sustaining a hand injury while doing the washing ...

The Serious Fraud Office has settled a lawsuit with the Kazakh mining group ENRC, which accused the agency of leaking ...

Wiping out smallpox had an unintended consequence: the rise of mpox in the past few years. Here's the story — starting with ...

One of the World Health Organization’s most important jobs is managing viral outbreaks. The rapid spread of mpox, a disease related to smallpox, is a reminder of its shortcomings. Although ...

A case of mpox has been found in Nakasongola jail in central Uganda, a prison spokesperson said on Tuesday, adding that the ...