Mpox outbreak in Africa is public health emergency, declares WHO
Outbreak resembles early days of HIV, say experts, urging accelerated access to vaccines and testing An outbreak in Africa of mpox, the disease formerly known...
Category : Global development
Mpox screening stepped up globally as more cases emerge outside Africa
The move comes amid reports of disappointing results from trials for a treatment against the variant behind the current outbreak Surveillance efforts against mpox are...
Global health charities warn of ‘huge and terrible’ threat to abortion rights if Trump returns
‘Global gag rule’ and funding cuts will be ‘on different scale’ if Republicans win again, family-planning providers say Providers of women’s healthcare around the world...
Sudanese factions using starvation as weapon is ‘cowardice’, US envoy says
Tom Perriello condemns tactics of Rapid Support Forces and Sudanese military before peace talks in Geneva The US special envoy for Sudan has accused the...
Pantanal waterway project would destroy a ‘paradise on Earth’, scientists warn
The South American wetland, which falls within Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay, would be vulnerable to biome loss and increased wildfires ‘Losing Noah’s Ark’: Brazil’s plan...
Children ‘at death’s door’ as famine declared in Sudanese refugee camp
UN-backed early warning network confirms people in the Darfur city of El Fasher are starving to death Famine has been declared in a Sudanese displacement...
Nigerian singer, actor and activist Onyeka Onwenu dies aged 72
Nicknamed the ‘Elegant Stallion’, the revered star died after performing at a private party in Lagos Onyeka Onwenu, the singer, actor, broadcaster and activist whose...
Somalia arrests another journalist as press clampdown intensifies
Detention of reporters for covering sensitive news is having a ‘chilling’ effect on free media in Somalia, say rights groups The arrest of a journalist...
Maduro’s exit ‘irreversible’, says Venezuela opposition leader, as election protests grow
María Corina Machado says president should understand he lost vote, amid international doubts over victory claim The opposition leader battling to bring the curtain down...
Girls as young as nine gang-raped by paramilitaries in Sudan – report
RSF militia, mired in civil war for 15 months, accused of sexual violence, including rape and torture, in Khartoum Gunmen from a notorious militia roamed...
