The World Health Organization on Friday urged manufacturers to ramp up production of mpox vaccines to rein in the spread of a more dangerous strain of the virus.The WHO on Wednesday declared the mpox surge a public health emergency of international concern — its highest alert level — with Clade 1b cases soaring in the …
WHO seeks mpox vaccine production surgeFri, 16 Aug 2024 21:28:36 GMT Read More »
High in the wintry mountains of Lesotho, Sharon Kadangwe from Malawi is learning to ski on a strip of snow that runs down a dry, brown slope at southern Africa’s only ski resort. Â It’s “exciting and scary”, the 29-year-old said, climbing down from the ski lift. “It feels like the first time I learned how …
Skiing in Lesotho: an African adventure under pressureFri, 16 Aug 2024 20:16:38 GMT Read More »
Health authorities warned Friday that Europe must be ready for more cases of a deadly strain of mpox that has killed hundreds of people in the Democratic Republic of Congo.The World Health Organisation urged pharmaceutical firms to ramp up vaccine production and China said it would screen travellers for the disease after the first cases …
Burundi on Friday freed journalist Floriane Irangabiye, who had been sentenced to 10 years in prison for allegedly “undermining the integrity of the national territory”, according to AFP journalists.Irangabiye, 36, was arrested in August 2022 while visiting her family in the East African nation and sentenced in January 2023, provoking international criticism.”I am very happy …
Burundi frees journalist sentenced to 10 years in jailFri, 16 Aug 2024 18:49:27 GMT Read More »
Sudanese paramilitary forces killed at least 80 people in a southeastern village, a medical source and witnesses said Friday, even as US-sponsored talks sought to end 16 months of devastating war.The assault occurred in Jalgini village in the state of Sennar on Thursday.”We received 55 dead and dozens of wounded at the hospital on Thursday, …
Four more bodies have been recovered from the site of a massive garbage landslide in the Ugandan capital Kampala, bringing the death toll to 34, police said Friday.The collapse at the landfill in the northern district of Kiteezi at the weekend buried people, homes and livestock in mountains of fetid waste.An MP for the area …
Uganda garbage landslide death toll rises to 34Fri, 16 Aug 2024 10:01:42 GMT Read More »
Pakistan said Friday it had confirmed a case of mpox, a day after Sweden recorded the first infection outside of Africa involving a new, more dangerous strain of the virus that has killed hundreds in the DR Congo.The mpox surge in Africa — which has also affected Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda — prompted the …
Though the Sudanese army is still staying away from ceasefire talks in Switzerland, the US envoy convening the negotiations told AFP they were nonetheless in daily contact — and making progress on humanitarian aid.War has raged since April 2023 between the Sudanese army under the country’s de facto ruler Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary …
The WHO on Thursday warned further imported cases of the new, more dangerous mpox strain in Europe were likely, after Sweden announced the first such infection outside Africa in an outbreak that has killed hundreds in the DR Congo.The case recorded in a traveller in Sweden was announced the day after the World Health Organization …
WHO warns more mpox to come in Europe after case in SwedenThu, 15 Aug 2024 18:58:02 GMT Read More »
The US special envoy for Sudan said Thursday he wanted “tangible results” from talks on ending the African nation’s devastating war, despite the Sudanese government staying away.War has raged since April 2023 between the Sudanese army under the country’s de facto ruler Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by his …
US wants ‘tangible results’ at Sudan ceasefire talksThu, 15 Aug 2024 17:07:10 GMT Read More »
