The Ministry of Health has confirmed an outbreak of yellow fever in Northern Uganda after three people died in Moyo and Buliisa Districts. Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng said ... Read more »

Lassa fever is a viral haemorrhagic illness, caused by contact with food or household items contaminated with rodent urine or faeces and has thus far spread to seven states, with ... Read more »

Senior doctors, who have been providing limited services and attending to emergency cases only since December 2019, have returned to work full-time and up-scaled their services to ... Read more »

Countries across the continent are on the alert as a coronavirus outbreak spreads in Asia. The outbreak coincides with the Chinese Lunar New Year holiday, which sees millions of ... Read more »

Meat may be meeting its match, as more and more South Africans are experimenting with vegetarian and vegan lifestyles. Veganism - which entails cutting out all meat and ... Read more »

The meteorological department has attributed the heavy rains experienced in most parts of the country to unusual sea surface temperatures in the Indian, Atlantic and Pacific ... Read more »

Zimbabwe's thermal power plant in Hwange was knocked off line because of local flooding which also damaged homes and crops. The southern African country has been experiencing power ... Read more »

A Nigerian ophthalmologist has identified some of the causes of diabetic eye diseases to include poor blood sugar control, having high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels and ... Read more »

29-year-old Millicent Kagonga has been volunteering to take care of cancer patients within the slums, regardless of the type of cancer they suffer from, age and gender through ... Read more »

Southern Africa is in the throes of a climate emergency, with hunger levels in the region on a previously unseen scale, the UN's World Food Programme has warned, adding that the ... Read more »