In the shadows of Python Cave, Uganda, a leopard leaps from a guano mound—formed by bat excrement—and sinks its teeth into a ...

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), through its West Africa Regional Coordinating Centre, in collaboration with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), ...

Northern Africa, Central and West Asia is a diverse region characterized by relatively low but increasing cancer incidence rates. Breast cancer is the most common cancer in both sexes combined in all ...

Sharmila Anandasabapathy, a renowned U.S. clinician‑scientist and global health leader, comes from Houston's Baylor College ...

Illinois has reported its first human case of West Nile virus as county health departments across the Chicago area issue warnings for residents.

Analysis - As of 17 June 2025, there have been over 4,000 confirmed cases of mpox and 25 deaths in Sierra Leone, raising the ...

The African Export-Import Bank has been thrust into the spotlight due to a dispute over whether its loans to African ...

The West African Health Organisation (WAHO) has called for deeper collaboration among countries in West and Central Africa to effectively combat emerging public health threats, particularly those with ...

In 2014, Ebola swept through the West African region ... to storage requirements—that make large-scale campaigns far from straightforward. West Africa has received only a fraction of the doses it ...

Ebola, a hemorrhagic fever, killed at least 11,000 across the world after it decimated West Africa and spread rapidly over the space of two years.