BRAZZAVILLE, Congo -- Africa faces a growing threat from zoonotic diseases such as monkeypox, the WHO said Thursday, with the continent recording a 63-percent rise in such outbreaks over the past decade. A World Health Organization (WHO) analysis found 1,843 "public health events", such as disease...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- A start-up entrepreneur from South Africa wants to change the way edible caterpillars popularly known as "mopane worms" are viewed and eaten. An attendee holds a mopani worm at the Hostex food Expo in Sandton on June 27, 2022. A South African start-up entrepreneur is...
EAST LONDON, South Africa -- At least 21 teenagers died over the weekend after a night out at a township tavern in South Africa, officials said Sunday. Forensic personel carry a body out of a township pub in South Africa's southern city of East London on June 26, 2022, after 20 teenagers died. At...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- The Africa Center for Disease Control (Africa CDC) warned monkeypox cases are increasing across the African continent. Ahmed Ogwell, acting director of Africa CDC, while addressing journalists in his period briefing on Thursday, said since the beginning of 2022 eight...
One of the diplomats who met with President-elect Bongbong Marcos Wednesday, June 15 said her government is willing to help facilitate a deal for Angola to supply the Philippines with oil. President-elect Bongbong Marcos's reception to Ambassador of South Africa H.E. Bartinah Ntombizodwa...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Fifteen people were killed and 37 injured Friday when a bus and a truck collided on a South African highway near the capital Pretoria, an emergency services spokesman told AFP. "The death toll is now 15 dead, and 37 people have been injured, some of them critically,"...
NAIROBI, Kenya -- Four consecutive failed rain seasons combined with a lethargic response to appeal for humanitarian support could push millions of people in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia to the brink of starvation, the United Nations agencies, and food security experts said in a joint statement on...
PH Embassy in Pretoria participates in World Food Festival EAT’S MORE FUN IN THE PHILIPPINES Philippine Ambassador to South Africa Noralyn Jubaira Baja (5 th from left) with heads of missions of participating embassies in the World Food Festival The Philippine Embassy in Pretoria is one of the...
BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of the Congo -- Covid-19 deaths in the African region are expected to decline by almost 94 percent in 2022 compared with 2021 which was the pandemic's most lethal year, said the World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday, citing a new WHO analysis. The analysis, which was...
NAIROBI, Kenya -- The United Nations top relief official has warned of the worsening drought in the Horn of Africa region which has already affected more than 18 million people across Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya. Villager Caroline is seen in a withered maize crops field in Kidemu sub-location in...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- Earlier start dates and rapid scale-up of Covid-19 vaccination delivered greater health benefits in terms of hospitalizations and deaths averted, and were more cost-effective in Africa, a newly published study by the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- South Africa's new Covid-19 cases shot up by more than 50 percent Thursday from the previous day, official data showed amid a surge of infections driven by two new Omicron sub-variants. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases reported that 9,757 new Covid-19...
