At least 100 residential buildings, school, churches were reportedly destroyed by an explosion Akure, the Ondo State capital, writes Victor Ogunyinka for Vanguard. Read more »

Millions of people around the world have utilised a WhatsApp helpline originally launched by the South African Department of Health. COVID-19 Connect was designed to deliver ... Read more »

The United Nations has launched a U.S.$2 billion plan to fight coronavirus in vulnerable countries and stop it circling the globe, saying nobody is safe if the most vulnerable ... Read more »

As governments around the world struggle to contain spiraling infections and an ever-increasing death toll from COVID-19, it's worth using World TB Day to reflect on what lessons ... Read more »

Dr Matshidiso Moeti, World Health Organization Regional Director for Africa, says the reasons the virus has not spread as quickly in Africa as it has in the northern hemisphere are ... Read more »

The government has partnered with the World Health Organization, UNICEF, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and ONE, the anti-poverty campaign co-founded by Irish musician and ... Read more »

Female genital mutilation affects far more countries than previously thought, a new study says. FGM is traditionally associated with a swathe of African countries, but the study hi Read more »

U.S. officials have warned that the security situation in the Sahel region is rapidly deteriorating. They said attacks claimed by Islamic militants against civilians and military ... Read more »

Late 2019, Guinea Bissau went to the polls to decide who would replace José Mário Vaz as president. Decades of instability and military intervention came down to this ... Read more »

After months of battling an Ebola virus outbreak that killed more than 2,200 people, UN officials are "cautiously optimistic" that the epidemic in the northeast Democratic Republic ... Read more »