Category: Medical

The World Health Organization’s endorsement of the world’s first malaria vaccine marks a major advance against the mosquito-borne illness, which kills some 265,000 children in Africa annually.Bitrus Yusuf pours syrup into a measuring cup to give to his…

The United States is donating 17 million doses of the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine to the African Union, bringing the total American donation to the continent to 67 million doses.The U.S. previously donated 50 million doses to the AU, whi…

Police shot a protester to death Wednesday in Eswatini, the latest casualty in months of demonstrations that have left more than a dozen people dead.Agence France-Presse reported Wednesday that the man was killed during a clash between police and a gro…

Suspected jihadis killed 10 villagers in an attack on a mosque earlier this week in western Niger’s Tillaberi region, local sources said Wednesday.The attack on Monday occurred in the village of Abankor in the tri-border region where Niger, Mali and Bu…

The United States is sending more than 3.5 million doses of the two-shot Pfizer vaccine to Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, a White House official told VOA on Tuesday.“We are sharing these doses not to secure favors or extract concessions,” the …

GENEVA — A U.N. official says a funding shortage means humanitarian aid will have to be cut for many of the nearly 10 million people in Democratic Republic of Congo facing multiple crises because of lack of money.Conflict in the eastern DRC has forced …

A case of Ebola has been confirmed in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, the health minister said Friday, five months after the end of the most recent outbreak there.It was not immediately known if the case was related to the 2018-20 outbreak th…