Cora Bailey has been encountering illegal miners ever since she first started treating injured animals in the townships around Roodepoort, west of Johannesburg, in...
Lina Attalah, a prominent Egyptian journalist and the editor-in-chief of the news outlet Mada Masr, has been released from detention by Egypt’s authorities and...
The “unprecedented” spread of the Ebola outbreak means it could reach the UK and other countries, according to one of Africa’s top health officials.As...
Guinea-Bissau has not approved the controversial hepatitis B study in newborns that would be funded by the US government and private partners, the African...
A controversial research trial that will withhold hepatitis B vaccines from some African newborns was given approval to move forward this week.It is a...
A survey of the world’s largest free-roaming giant tortoise population has revealed that the once endangered species is thriving.A population of Aldabra giant tortoises...
Kenya has reported its first-ever Ebola death, the health minister announced on Tuesday, as the disease continues to spread rapidly through the north-east of...
As renewed fighting has threatened a fresh humanitarian crisis in the northern region of Ethiopia, reports are emerging that a new alliance of armed...