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The escalating violence in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has affected testing for the infectious mpox virus disease, which has afflicted thousands in the country and ... Read more »
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U.S. President Donald Trump's administration issued an executive order on January 20 Read more »
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The military junta in Niger has ordered the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to leave the country, without providing an official reason for the decision. Read more »
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Female Genital Mutilation causes about 44,000 deaths each year in more than a dozen countries. This is the grim revelation from a new report cited in The Conversation Afr Read more »
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The high court has called for an end to treating people with HIV infection as a special category of offenders since the disease is "no longer deadly due to advancement in tre Read more »
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At least 54 people are dead and 158 wounded after a strike carried out by Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on a market in Omdurman. Sudanese authorities and Read more »
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Niger has become the first African country to eliminate onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness, a parasitic disease that is the second-leading cause of blindn Read more »
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The World Health Organization has congratulated Guinea for eliminating human African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness - a neglected tropical disease. This is the first ne Read more »
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President Donald Trump has announced that the U.S. would Read more »
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The government has warned against the use of skin bleaching products, a practice that is widespread in the country - and across the region - despite their well-documented har Read more »
