A comprehensive strategy that combines pharmacological advances, vector control, public outreach to raise awareness and ...

to address the critic Emergent shortages of the drug used to treat the most severe form of African sleeping sickness creates immediate need for direct access to the global drug market for affected ...

The human African trypanosomiasis, better known as sleeping sickness, is among the most dangerous illnesses in Africa. The World Health Organization (WHO) in 2021 set the ambitious goal of eradicating ...

is endemic in 13 countries across eastern and southern Africa. This acute form of sleeping sickness progresses rapidly and, if untreated, can be fatal. In the past 5 years, T. b. rhodesiense accounted ...

Niger became the first African country to eliminate the parasitic infection onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness, and the fifth worldwide, according to World Health Organisation (WHO).

Leaders of Eastern and Southern African regional blocs met for an unprecedented ... led rebel movements to emerge in Congo’s volatile east. Congo’s government says it is a Rwandan proxy ...

Leaders from east and southern Africa have called for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire to end the deadly fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo. At a crisis summit in Tanzania ...

Israeli police raided two Palestinian bookstores in occupied east Jerusalem on Sunday, confiscating books and arresting one of the owners and his nephew, according to their family members. CCTV ...

The 42-day ceasefire has appeared close to failure since Hamas on Monday unexpectedly announced it would stop releasing hostages, leading Israel to respond with a threat to return to war. Middle ...

Fearing the conflict would spill over into neighbouring countries, east and southern African leaders at a summit on Saturday urged an "immediate and unconditional" ceasefire within five days.