The bodies of Italy's ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo and his bodyguard arrived back in Rome on Tuesday aboard a military aircraft, a
The World Health Organization's global vaccine sharing scheme Covax delivered its first Covid-19 shots on Wednesday, as the race to get doses to the world's poorest people and tame the pandemic accelerates. A flight carrying 600 000 doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine produced by the
Guinea launched an Ebola vaccination campaign on Tuesday after a fresh outbreak of the deadly disease struck the country this month, with officials hoping to
Fifteen members of a contingent of Ethiopian peacekeepers in South Sudan, originally from the Tigray region, refused to return to Ethiopia Monday, the UN said, citing their right to seek asylum if they fear for their lives. Tigray has been the theatre of fighting since
Myanmar's military leaders came under renewed pressure Tuesday as the world's wealthiest nations (G7) condemned the junta for responding to anti-coup demonstrators "with violence", a
Somalia on Tuesday banned street protests citing Covid-19, in what could raise another possibility of confrontations with opposition groups. The announcement by the Ministry of
Two African countries of Guinea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Xinhua News Agency reports, have reported 14 Ebola virus cases and nine deaths so far, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said Monday. Africa CDC, the specialised healthcare agency
China has revealed that four of its People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers were killed during a bloody hand-to-hand battlewith Indian troops on the two countries'
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Thursday that 11 000 Ebola vaccines would be sent to Guinea to tackle a resurgence of the deadly
The Federal Government of Nigeria has approved AstraZeneca for the emergency treatment of the Coronavirus pandemic.The country, through a regulator, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control(NAFDAC), on Thursday said it has approved the AstraZeneca vaccine for emergency use authorisation.This was made known