Category: Medical

BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC — Rebels killed 10 civilians during an attack hundreds of kilometers northeast of the Central African Republic capital of Bangui, the spokesperson for the U.N. peacekeeping force in the country told AFP.”Armed elements …

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa is experiencing a surge of new COVID-19 cases driven by two omicron sub-variants, according to health experts.For about three weeks the country has seen increasing numbers of new cases and somewhat higher hospitalizations, b…

Religious groups and rights activists in Nigeria are calling for justice after a female Christian student was killed by a mob for alleged blasphemy.The student was beaten and burned to death on the premises of a school in northwestern Sokoto state.The …

Plans are underway in Malawi to start administering the cholera vaccine in some southern districts, as the number of cholera cases has been rising since an outbreak began in January.According to a daily update released Thursday by the Ministry of Healt…

At least 14 people were killed in an overnight attack on a displaced persons camp in east Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ituri province, the latest violence in an area overrun by militants, the army and a civil society leader said on Tuesday.Rebels rai…

KINSHASA— At least 15 asylum seekers were killed late Monday in a new attack by militiamen of the rebel group “Congo Economic Development Cooperative” (CODECO) in a camp for displaced people (IDP) in the Djugu territory of the Ituri province, in northe…

Raiders killed at least 35 people, including a baby, in an attack on a gold mine in Ituri, in the strife-torn northeast of Democratic Republic of Congo, local sources said Sunday.One local official, Jean-Pierre Bikilisende, of the rural Mungwalu settle…

A protestor has been killed by Sudanese security forces during a rally against the military government in Khartoum on Thursday, medics said.According to the Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors, the unidentified victim was “run over by an armoured veh…